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

[Todd Wallace]

Aaron, 

I totally remember those addon boards.  Back in high school we had all macs but wanted to be able to support windows stuff too.  We bought this ISA card that had onboard intel cpu and ram.  Then it ran something on the mac called "SoftWindows".  I remember tinkering with it.  Fun times.

- Todd (LordDragon)

On Aug 26, 2011, at 12:13 PM, Aaron Wolfe wrote:

> 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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