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

[Joel Ewy]

On 08/26/2011 07:48 AM, Aaron Banerjee wrote:
> 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?),

Well, without the use of special software (and possibly special 
hardware) you can't normally write Mac formatted floppies on other 
systems.  However, if all you want to do is get some data onto the Mac 
by means of floppy disk, the Mac should be able to read MS-DOS formatted 
floppies, if you have the Foreign File Access extension installed.

JCE

> 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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