[Coco] Color computer 2 educational version

Steve Strowbridge ogsteviestrow at gmail.com
Tue Apr 4 10:43:31 EDT 2017


That is Wicked Cool!

My Junior High was all Apple II when I was there, but when I got to high
school, they switched over to CoCos.
I was able to go back and visit and act as the CoCo consultant, and show
them all the cool things I was doing, what some of the awesome games and
music were like, and I remember showing off this really cool game in the
Rainbow that was in BASIC, but had 4 panels of assembly language scrolling
in it, and the teachers and the class were all just blown away.

It was nice to see the same pompous and elitist teachers who were all up
Apple's ass eat crow, if even for a day :)

I never understood why people would get so high and might on the Apple
being such a good computer, when the average kid really couldn't do
anything with it themselves, and the things I could do in BASIC on my CoCo
ran circles around AppleSoft BASIC.

I felt then, and I do now, that it doesn't matter what the machine is, it
really matters on what you can do with it, and the CoCo literally empowered
me, I felt pretty invincible when it came to what I could do in BASIC,
which is embarrassing at this point :)


Steve Strowbridge, aka
The Original Gamer Stevie Strow
http://ogsteviestrow.com
ogsteviestrow at gmail.com


On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 5:41 PM, Stephen H. Fischer <SFischer1 at mindspring.com
> wrote:

> http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/coco/Documents/Magazines/Hot%
> 20CoCo%20(Searchable%20image)/Hot%20Coco%20Vol.%202%20No.%
> 208%20-%20January%201985.pdf
>
> Page 22 on the right in the ad for DELKER ELECTRONICS, INC.
>
> "NEW! 26-3128 64K Direct Video CoCo2 $219.95"
>
> ----------------------------
> http://os9projects.com/CD_Archive/TUTORIAL/COCO/
> LITTLEWONDER/Cocobook-TLW2.pdf
>
> 1984 Page 34
>
> 26-3128 - n/a - 16K CoCo 2 w/mono composite video
> adapter (factory installed, schools only)
>
> Note: "schools only".
>
> SHF
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rietveld Rietveld" <rietveldh at hotmail.com>
> To: "Coco mailing list" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2017 1:59 PM
> Subject: [Coco] Color computer 2 educational version
>
>
> >I just picked up a 'new in the box' coco 2 64k.   Model 26-3128
> >
> > When I opened the manual it came with an insert saying this was the
> 'education version ' and has a built in ciā€Žrcuit board that connects
> directly to a composite color monitor
> >
> > Does anyone have info for this model?
> >
> > Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.
> >
>
>
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