[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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