[Coco] old newbie on the list

[BlameTroi]

Cool news. I went looking for Color Forth but since Charles Moore has his
own project by that name, I couldn't find anything for all the noise. Color
Forth is where I first got interested in the language. My wife will shoot
me if I get any more toys for the year, but I'm watching and plan to get a
real coco again soon. I was shocked and pleased to see so much available
once I started looking.

On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 8:30 AM, Stephen Pereira <spereira1952 at comcast.net>
wrote:

> BlameTroi,
>
> Welcome back to the CoCo community!
>
> Please note that you can get back into Forth on the CoCo.  If you have a
> CoCo, I have modified the Talbot Microsystems Color Forth to work on any
> CoCo with Disk Extended Color Basic (DECB).  So, a CoCo with one disk
> drive, or with Drivewire substituting for your disk storage will give you
> the best of both - CoCo and Forth.
>
> Good luck to you,
> smp
> --
> Stephen M. Pereira
> Bedford, NH  03110
> KB1SXE
>
>
> > On Aug 15, 2015, at 8:10 AM, BlameTroi <blametroi at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi. BlameTroi is Troy Brumley. I was an avid coco user back in the day
> and
> > wrote articles for Color Computer News, Rainbow, and Color Micro
> Journal. I
> > wrote a macro key assembler program as my first serious article in Color
> > Computer News. I can't remember the name of the hard sectored DOS from a
> > guy in Arizona, but that was my first set of disks for my coco. I even
> did
> > the soldered upgrade to 32K :)
> >
> > I can't find any of my old stuff digitized, and my paper copies are long
> > gone after a messy divorce :(
> >
> > I got kicked out of the workforce a couple of years ago (disability) and
> as
> > I cast about for something to do, I discovered that retro computing is a
> > thing. Right now I'm most seriously looking at relearning Forth but want
> to
> > start watching the coco community as well. As it was back in the day, all
> > the attention seems to go to the more successful but less interesting
> > systems, so I was surprised to find much of anything on the coco. There's
> > some kickstarter for a C64 book, wtf :)
> >
> > L8r,
> >
> > Troy.
> >
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