[Coco] Midwest VCF

[Frank Pittel]

Boisy,

This is my second year going and both time had a great time with the day passing
in what seemed like an instant and getting home completely exhausted.

I don't think that back in the day you could have filled a room with a mix of commodor<SP?>,
atari, coco and sinclair users without at least one fight breaking out! :-) A lot of questions
and interest in the coco3fpga.

The Other Frank

BTW - I met a person involved with a group working on an interesting project of home made
8bit computers using "stackable" boards that appeared to be interchangable. The cpu, memory,
etc was on one board and things like I/O were on other boards. The person I spoke with was
working primarily on the board with the 6809 and mentioned that his long term goal was to get
OS9 working on it. I of course could mention that there is currently an open source version of
OS9 called Nitros9 and gave him your name as a possible contact. Don't know how interested you
are in helping and of course I didn't promise any help. :-) The name of the group is something
like n8vem home brew computers. If nothing else run the name through google and have a look.
It looks like a very interesting project and if I every run out of projects that I need to
work on I'm going to look into building one of their computers! :-)


On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 09:46:00PM -0500, Boisy G. Pitre wrote:
> Frank,
> 
> I hear you.  It's a call for us to step up our game.
> 
> Glad you had a good time.  We sure did in Dallas a few months ago.
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> On Sep 26, 2011, at 9:57 PM, Frank Pittel wrote:
> 
> > I went to the yearly VCF here in the Chicago area over the weekend and the Coco and coco2fpga
> > held their own I have to admit the Coco community is being let down in the hardware dept!!
> > While there I went from table to table and saw all kinds of cool hardware being made for the
> > different types of 8bit machines like Comodore<SP?> and Atari!! Things like an NIC for the
> > C64, etc, etc, etc. It's time for the hardware geeks left in the Coco world to step up and
> > start producing cool new stuff for our Cocos!! :-)
> > 
> > The Other Frank
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