[Coco] New CoCo videos from Radio Shack

[Mike Rowen]

Frank,

When I re-entered the coco world 2 years ago, I started by obtaining a big haul of equipment someone was liquidating. Among the disks and books  was a copy of TLW. I eagerly devoured your book and still reference it on a regular basis. If new copies were available, I would purchase one as mine is quite dog eared. :) I have the PDF too of course, but I enjoy the paper version. Very nice to have such a broad range of info in one place. Thanks for writing it. I look forward to Boisy's book as well and I expect it will compliment yours nicely.

-Mike

On Sep 14, 2012, at 6:57 PM, Frank Swygert <farna at amc-mag.com> wrote:

> Boisy e-mailed me and told me the interview was pretty much done "on the fly" and he simply forgot about my book or would have phrased what he said differently. None of us remember every little detail! Regardless, I realize he was wanting to plug the new book, and I don't blame him one bit... he needs to. There was no hard feelings on my part, I just wanted to point out the minor error. I've given him and his partner some ideas that might help, or more likely are just along what they intended to do anyway. I'll be pleased to see another work on the CoCo, especially if it can get more into the mainstream. I even gave them permission to use any info from the book, just credit to the source.
> 
> For anyone interested, "Tandy's Little Wonder" is a history, but also a technical and "survival" guide. Lots of repair and some modification instructions, all that can be done with just a multi-meter and soldering iron, all most hobbyists can handle! I retain copyright, but have released it as a free download in PDF form. It can be downloaded at ftp://maltedmedia.com/coco/MAGAZINES/FARNA/Tandy%27s%20Little%20Wonder/
> 
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> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 12:26:26 -0400
> From: "mcnd96 at aol.com  "<mcnd96 at aol.com>
> 
> I have your book and it was very well done.  I even thought the same thing about the comment there was no other book like it.
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Reply message -----
> From: "Frank Swygert"<farna at amc-mag.com>
> To:<coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Subject: [Coco] New CoCo videos from Radio Shack
> Date: Thu, Sep 13, 2012 2:04 pm
> 
> Boisy did a great job on the interview, I'm certainly glad he got to do it!
> 
> I'm going to take exception to the statement "one of the things the
> Color Computer hasn't had up to this point is a good book about the
> entire history ll the way from the inception of the Color Computer until
> now."  I'm sorry Boisy -- you never looked at or read "Tandy's Little
> Wonder", which I published back in 1990 as the CoCo was fading out, and
> reissued in 2006 with minor revisions.
> (remaining cut, not relevant to this post)
> 
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