[Coco] [Color Computer] A Lot of questions

[Mark Marlette]

At 06:12 AM 5/13/2004 +0000, you wrote:
>Hello everyone.  I hope all is going well for everyone.  I have
>finally found EBay and purchased a lot of COCO stuff trying to build
>my
>collection.  It is fun to get back into the old COCO's.  I have some
>questions I hope you can help me with.
>
>1.  The COCO Fest this weekend I have been debating driving up there
>from Kansas City, but I not sure what it is all about.  Will people
>be selling stuff there?


Yes, we will have all of our products there. A good place to pick up items 
and meet some GREAT people!


>2.  How do I download program from the internet on my PC and get
>them over to the COCO?

I use a floppy and utilities but that is on modified hardware. Could use an 
Emulator and a 5 1/4" drive or a serial cable and terminal programs.


>3.  Where can I buy 5 1/4 disk and tapes for the COCO.  They are
>very hard to find here.

We have some disks at the fest, no tapes. We are going to solid state 
storage devices. :)


>4.  I got a Multi Pak for the COCO's, but it does not work on the
>COCO 3.  I remember this issue back in theday, but I do not know if
>it can be fixed.

Mpack should power up on CC3 and even work to a certain extent. If not then 
it is defect. Depending on the type of pak, 26-3024, that is a chip upgrade 
to work on a CC3. A 26-3124 is a time and material upgrade that we do. 
Prior is $10, latter is $25.


Regards,

Mark
Cloud-9

>EBay has been a great help in restarting my collection, but I will
>warn everyone to be carefull.  I have recieved some very yellow
>cases and damaged COCO's.  People can hide things in the pictures
>very well.  If
>anyone out there has anything for sale please let me know.  I am
>looking for a monitor for the coco 3.  I perfer a CM-8, if there are
>any out there.  I also want to rebuild a Rainbow and Hot COCO
>collection.  So, if anyone wants to sell them please let me know, or
>if you know how I can get them somewhere.  One more thing, I
>purchased a lot of COCO programs from EBay and I need help loading
>them.  They have no manuals and I do not remember how to load
>program from disk other than the load"filename"  and them run.
>There was another way if I remember correctly.  If you have access
>to
>some old manuals let me know, I will pay for coping fees, or if you
>can scan them that would be better.  Email me and I will email you
>the list of programs.  Thanks a lot,  I am glad to see there is
>still support for the COCO's.  I will most likely go to Chicago this
>weekend and hopefully make some new friends, plus I want to see the
>cloud 9 stuff.
>
>Thanks
>Grant
>grantkcmo75 at kc.rr.com
>
>
>
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