[Coco] coco 2 vs coco 3

[Aaron Wolfe]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 5:04 PM, Nick Marentes <nickma2 at optusnet.com.au>
wrote:
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> Again, it's down to the percentage of programmers versus the actual number
> who bought the system to play games.
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> Nick


Don't forget the "kids" like myself who maybe had little influence over
what system they had at home.  I've met several folks who work in IT today
and got their start on a CoCo.  There is undoubtedly bias in my
perceptions, but compared to those I've met who came up on other 8 bit
machines, the CoCo did seem to serve very well as a tool for learning
computing concepts.

We had a good BASIC, *great* manuals for BASIC, and the Rainbow was a
constant stream of education at so many levels even once you moved beyond
BASIC.  I probably ended up reading most of them 10 or 20 times at
different levels of experience and there was always something new to
learn.  I don't think there is really an equal for kids today.. maybe there
can't be now that even home computing is so much more complex.

Anyway... yes I think a lot of programmers liked the CoCo, and then the
coco created quite a few too.
-Aaron