[Coco] Hijacked: Multipak redesign/replacement

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 27 February 2015 07:27:35 Christopher R. Hawks wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Feb 2015 23:24:21 -0500
>
> Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> > On Thursday 26 February 2015 22:38:50 James C. Hrubik wrote:
> > > Gene & Richard, that’s the problem with us fossils.  Back in the
> > > Paleolithic Age when we were getting our noodles curled around
> > > practical technology with wooden paddles, the knowledge was scarce,
> > > precious, and the media that contained it was expensive enough that
> > > the public library was a treasure trove.  Through my years in the
> > > classroom I collected the various journals that I was able to,
> > > because I figured that my sons would find them as intriguing as I
> > > did.  They don’t; they think that if it isn’t on the internet, it
> > > isn’t relevant technology.  I finally pitched boxes of old Journal
> > > of Chemical Education issues after scanning in the more fascinating
> > > historical articles and lab experiments.  My piles of Scientific
> > > American issues from the 70’s and 80’s will be the next to go, but
> > > I still find myself fascinated and amused looking through them —
> > > and finding old Radio Shack computer advertisements!!! (see, this
> > > is sort of on topic).  Years of Wood Magazine, from when it first
> > > came out, are still sitting on my shelves, and nobody has bothered
> > > them in at least a decade.  (A complete set of Rainbow, too, minus
> > > Issue #1).
> >
> > Where my copies of Fine WoodWorking are often as not, a bit
> > bedraggled by the time I actually file them in a records box.
> >
> > > I had the idea at one point to try to put them on eBay, but I
> > > looked at what things like that were bringing, and it wouldn’t be
> > > worth my time to write an advertisement for them.  The knowlege
> > > doesn’t cost anything today, and the value of it is seen to be
> > > related to the cost.
> >
> > I hear that! Just 4 years ago I almost had to go buy a Louisville
> > Slugger to get an EE out of my way long enough to show him by putting
> > it together on the floor.  I'd spent 2 hours trying to explain what
> > needed to be done 13 feet up in the air because he was 40 years
> > younger, but his degree in EE absolutely blinded him to any and all
> > aspects of mechanics. As an EE he sucked, had no theory that actually
> > gave the right answers even for Ohms Law, but as a mechanic, he had
> > trouble putting the car keys in the switch right side up. Geriatric
> > rental car, key wasn't a mirror.  Iron Mountain Michigan, what can I
> > say.
> >
> > > It has been pointed out that the millenials are tech doofuses
> > > because they have no idea how to fix anything that might be
> > > broken.  Just throw it away and get a new one.  Don’t bother to
> > > think that you might be able to invent something new.  That is why
> > > this list is so close to my heart.  Here people talk about fixing
> > > stuff, and even improving on it.  I hope that spirit keeps on after
> > > we pass from the scene.
> >
> > So do I Jim.  This seemingly simple little thing that the shack
> > envisioned as a game console, has, with the os9 OS, turned into the
> > single most effective learn as you go CompSci coarse ever built,
> > thanks to the ability to write position independent code.  That
> > choice may have been serendipitous, based more on Motorola being next
> > door that anything else, has IMNSHO been an eye opener into how its
> > done right, and if as coders do our part, the results are all out of
> > proportion to the power others see in such a "toy" machine.
> >
> > > The CoCo may be a commercially dead
> > > computer, but it has a lively fan club driven by the spirit that
> > > made modern civilization possible — “If you tell me it can’t be
> > > done, I’ll prove that you are wrong".
>
> [snipity-snip]
>
> 	This conversation reminds me of the current thread in
> User Friendly!
>
> http://www.userfriendly.org/static/

Thats one of my daily tour the net stops. I have the utmost sympathy for 
Sid. ;-)

>
> Christopher R. Hawks
> HAWKSoft
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Cheers, Gene Heskett
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