[Coco] Greetings from a old coco user

[Barry Nelson]

 Maybe you can include a link from your page to my CoCo 3 RGB -> SCART -> HDMI converter cable project. It's a great way for a CoCo 3 owner to get RGB video on a modern HDMI TV set.

https://hackaday.io/project/7366-coco-3-rgb-to-scart-to-hdmi-cable

> Paulo Garcia paulo.astuser at gmail.com 
> Tue Jun 7 15:54:34 EDT 2016
> 
> Hey guys/gals
> 
> After subscribing to this list for a lot of time, I decided to write to say
> hi:)
> 
> I am Paulo, the owner/maintainer/janitor of Vintage is The New Old (
> http://www.vintageisthenewold.com) and for many time I've been playing with
> lots of different retro computers that I can put my hands on (and my wife
> allows me to bring home :) ).
> 
> Although I have 3 CoCos (two CoCo2 and one CoCo3) I never spend much time
> with them, until now. This week I decided to bring the CoCo3 out of its box
> and spend time with it. I have a disk drive but no software at all for now.
> 
> Interestingly enough, the computer I grew with was a CP-400 (Brazilian CoCo
> clone - but probably you all know that already) and with it I learned to
> program and spend hours and hours coding my own games. Unfortunately I sold
> it back then and now that I live in Canada it won't be easy to get a CP-400
> again but the original Tandy ones will do just fine :)
> 
> I am planning to, while I remember my ways with the CoCo, to increase the
> computer coverage on my site as I find new things (to me) about it.
> 
> If any of you have an interesting material and want it published there too,
> just let me know....
> 
> I will probably write more with basic questions that piled up over these 30
> years since I had my CP-400. All the new hardware accessories for the CoCo
> are new to me!
> 
> 
> Cheers!