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

john T Chasteen johnchasteen.2 at juno.com
Tue Aug 30 10:20:08 EDT 2011


Thanks for the info and quick reply Joel
What are some more web sites that has coco stuff?
John
 
On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 09:06:32 -0500 Joel Ewy <jcewy at swbell.net> writes:
> On 08/29/2011 07:34 PM, john T Chasteen wrote:
> > Joel
> > The coco was my first machine also. and finallly got the coco3 and 
> then
> > my first AT&T PC
> > Now I have 3 coco3's and several PC and the desktop is a flat case 
> 486
> > machine with wind
> > and DOS 6.2
> >
> > What do you do with the coco's?
> 
> Hi John,
> 
> Mostly I play with them.  Often I see something that someone posts 
> on 
> this mail list that piques my interest again, and I set up a CoCo 
> and 
> see what I can do with it.  About a year and a half ago some guys 
> worked 
> out several palettes that would give roughly 256 artifact colors on 
> a 
> composite monitor or TV in a way that was pretty easily usable.  So 
> I 
> made a slideshow to demonstrate what digitized images look like in 
> that 
> pseudo-mode.  You can see a video of the slideshow on YouTube:  
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjcUdoW0rrg
> 
> That's about the only thing of note I've done with the CoCo for a 
> while.  My son is 8, and I'm going to try to teach him a little 
> logic 
> and programming using the CoCo.  There's no better way to learn than 
> 
> with an old school computer.
> 
> JCE
> > I am still trying to get a system working properly. Cloud9, Chris  
> John
> > Mark and
> > Roger Taylor is giving me plenty of help. I want to learn much 
> more about
> > using
> > OS9, Basic O9, NitrOS9 and Tandy application programs for the 
> coco. I
> > don't
> > have my new KX-P2123 dot matrix printer connected... still have a 
> lot of
> > loose ends to catch up on.
> >
> > Since my wife fell and broke her hip, I have been spending a lot 
> with
> > trips to doctors and rehab.
> > but get some time every day to make progress.
> >
> > John
> >
> > On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 10:04:47 -0500 Joel Ewy<jcewy at swbell.net>  
> writes:
> >> The CoCo was my first computer, and will always remain at the top 
> of
> >> my
> >> list.  ...
> 
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