[Coco] New to the world of COCO

[Mike Needham]

Hi Roy and everyone:

I am sorry to hear about your dad as well.  I lost my grandparents to
cancer, one right after another over 5 years ago and I still miss them
terribly.  And real recently a really good friend of mine passed very
un-expectedly who was a mentor and colleague and was very knowledgeable in
Tandy computers.. before he bought the computer store he ran, he was a
manager of a Radio Shack for a few years.  And he was an electronics guru.
 The sad part on this was that he was only 60 when he passed.

Anyhow, there are times when a person passing leaves a black hole sized
space in the world by their passing and we can only try to remember them in
the best light.  In the case of my friend, it was like a library was burned
down.  It has been 2 years since he passed and I still miss talking with him
and hanging out... the real interesting part is I didn't think we were all
that close and definitely when I first met him, I did not like him... he was
one of those people that grow on you!

So always remember the good times!

On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 5:23 AM, Sean <badfrog at gmail.com> wrote:

> You have my deepest sympathy.  I went through the same thing in May
> with my father.
> This weekend I'm going back home so we can go spread his ashes at his
> favorite hunting spot.
>
> He didn't use the CoCo we had at all, but helped me start out with
> computers when he got a Timex-Sinclair 1000 when I was 5 or 6.
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 11:01 PM,  <RJRTTY at aol.com> wrote:
> > In a message dated 6/30/2011 5:38:54 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> > gheskett at wdtv.com writes:
> >
> >
> >>There is likely not more than 20 cm8's still alive, and the cm11 is an
> > ega
> >>monitor, not usable with the coco.  Your best bet is one of the  scan
> >>doublers and a recent vga monitor, even the late lcd's should work  with
> >>that.  Roy Justice was making one, and so was someone else, so  there
> > might
> >>be one of those on fleabay occasionally.
> >
> >
> > Hello everyone.   I still make my converter. I am on a  temporary
> > halt to production but will soon be back in my workshop,
> >
> > I was the primary care giver for my father who had lung cancer but he
> > passed a couple of weeks ago.
> >
> > I am now in the process of moving into his house which he left
> > to me and am rebuilding my workshop there.
> >
> > I will let everyone know when I can accept and fill orders again.
> >
> > You all would have liked my father.   He was a coal miner  with
> > a 9th grade education.   He put me through college and  could
> > hold up his end of a conversation on the physics of the
> > universe when it was the size of a marble.
> >
> > He was my father and I shall miss him.
> >
> > Roy
> >
> >
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-- 
73,

J. Mike Needham <KDØJXP>
jmikeneedham at gmail.com
Olathe, Kansas USA