[Coco] Re: An interesting find...
Richard E. Crislip
rcrislip at neo.rr.com
Wed Sep 8 08:28:31 EDT 2004
Hello Boisy
> This morning, before my first class, I got to campus early and stopped
> at the library. There, I browsed the on-line card catalog for any
> possible books on the Color Computer ore related topics. To my
> surprise, the computer returned hits on several 6809 books, including
> "Programming the 6809" by Rodney Zaks, but no books specific to the
> Color Computer. After trouncing up a few flights of stairs, I found
> the technical books section and there I located Dennis' "TRS-80 and
> other mysteries" book on the shelf, as well as a few books on TRS-80
> Level I programming and the like.
>
> Then glancing at the shelf below, there was the entire 80 Micro
> magazine collection in hardbound books! It was a real treat to sit
> there and sift through the '86 and '87 issues of 80 Micro that
> encapsulated the "Hot CoCo" magazines of that time. It was really cool
> to flip through them and see Radio Shack's ads for the CoCo and CoCo
> software.
Yeah.. I bet that was cool <sigh>. Wish I had time to even mess with my
CoCo, much less read about it. I spent the last five hours grading MS Word
and MS Excel project papers.
Regards
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