[Coco] Anyone else collect other old computers/game consoles beside the Coco?

[Aaron Banerjee]

Well, currently I have 4 Cocos, an Apple IIe, a Macintosh LC (say,  
does anyone know how to write a floppy readable by that computer?), an  
8088 with dual floppy drives....
   Ask me what I've got left after the hurricane blasts through here  
tomorrow....
                - Aaron

On Aug 25, 2011, at 7:11 PM, Jeremy Michea wrote:

> I thought it might be an interesting discussion. Obviously we all  
> love the Coco but what else do you love? Many of you may know that  
> I'm a huge Atari fan and have been collecting for the Atari  
> 2600/7800 and 8-bit line of computers for about 20 years now, on and  
> off as it was my first console in 1980. Through the 80's I also  
> owned the original Nintendo (NES) and Turbografx-16 but the only  
> computer I used aside from PC's (late 80's and early 90's) was my  
> beloved Coco.
>
> As a side note, I almost didn't get a coco. Brand loyalty at the  
> time lead our family to buy an Atari 800XL but my father wasn't  
> interested in buying all new software and games for a new system so  
> a friend suggested the coco since he had all kinds of software to  
> share with us (well, copied software on cassettes but as a 13 year  
> old in 1982 I wasn't aware or concerned about piracy so that's  
> another story) so we got a used Coco 1 with the chicklet keyboard, a  
> cassette player and a bunch of cassettes with, yes, mostly games. I  
> did do some homework but lets be honest, I spent most of my time  
> playing some great coco 1 games.
>
> As another side, yet rambling note, what BBS's did any of you use  
> back in the day? Here in Southern Ontario, the one I used the most  
> in my area was called "Route 66". I believe it was the only coco  
> based BBS in my area where it seemed predominately Commodore 64.  
> Also downloaded a lot of software from Route 66 as well as a local  
> coco user group that met once a month in a local french public school.
>
> I remember being so excited when the Coco 3 was announced. I spent  
> the summer prior to its release in the glorious field (literally) of  
> corn detasseling to save up the money to buy my brand new Coco 3. I  
> remember being in complete awe of the demo in the store and the  
> manager was nice enough to make a disk copy that I played a lot at  
> home. :)
>
> Anyway, I've rambled enough. Anyone else have any stories about  
> their other retro passions, coco musings, etc? :)
>
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