[Coco] The early days of Hacking and Coding a CoCo Was: Here's a CoCo 1 ...

[Mark McDougall]

On 21/01/2014 2:08 PM, Bill Loguidice wrote:

> We also shouldn't really delude ourselves about what people used classic
> computers like the CoCo for. Sure, there was a vocal minority that did
> really cool, powerful things with the machine, and a slightly larger
> percentage that programmed in languages like BASIC, but I bet more people
> used the platform to mostly play games than anything else.

Very true. And I suspect that those that remain interested in tinkering
with the old machines (e.g. members of this mailing list) fall into the
'vocal minority', which would skew the perception somewhat...

Regards,

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