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

[Aaron Wolfe]

Again sort of on topic... There was a time when I had an Amiga 2000,
with PC bridgeboard (386 I believe) and a rom adapter that could
simultaneously run Amiga, DOS/Windows (old version, maybe 3.0), and
Macintosh programs.  It could read and write to all 3 formats IIRC.
There was a limited amount of data exchange between the 3 systems, but
you could switch between them easily and they all ran concurrently.
It was the "ultimate" in compatibility.. sort of.  The DOS and Mac
sides were a bit picky, and the whole thing would get rather flaky at
times, but it was a cool thing to demo at least.

Wish I still had that system.. and a copy of OS9 for Amiga/68000.  I
have a few Amigas around but none as classic as that decked out 2000.
Good times.

-Aaron


On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Joel Ewy <jcewy at swbell.net> wrote:
> 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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