[Coco] CoCoWiki updated...

[Dave P.]

On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 16:36 -0500, Allen Huffman wrote:
> The TRS-80 CoCo Wiki has been upgraded to the current version of  
> MediWiki software.  This caused it to be down for an hour or so while  
> I did the upgrade.
> 
> http://www.coco25.com/wiki
> 
>          -- Allen

Hi Allen,

It has been a while since we've talked. I went ahead and made myself an
account on your wiki system. I suggest you fix your configuration so
anonymous users can't post, or you'll more than likely get spammed
(unfortunately there are wiki spam bots out there). I tried to upload
some pictures, but you have that disabled. I put my pictures up at
<http://wormfood.net/coco/>, in case you wanted any of them for your
wiki. I even have pictures of my modified floppy controller than will
handle 4 double sided drives. I'm fairly sure it was me who told you
about that at the '93 or '94 Atlanta CoCoFest, that you remember here
<http://five.pairlist.net/pipermail/coco/2003-October/000109.html>.

-Dave
This is my first post to the list, so I'll go ahead and intoduce myself
for those who don't know me. My name is Dave P. I choose not to use my
last name for my privacy, not to try and be anonymous. I'm a weird guy,
what can I say? I would imagine most people who know me, would remember
me from the Atlanta CoCoFests in '92, '93, and '94. I helped Scott, my
uncle, man the Animajik booth for Alan Sheltra one year (I think it was
'93). 'Wormfood' was my node name on StG net, but before that I was
'HacKer at home', if anyone here still remembers that.

Once I got a CoCo3 with 512k of ram, I became a hardcore OS-9 user. I
own a PT68K4 that I built from a kit (which is the same as the Delmar
System IV). I even wrote a .fli (animation) viewer for that system that
I'll bet some of you have seen, at the Delmar booth at some of the
CoCoFests. While I was pretty good with OS-9, I've forgotten much of it
due to lack of use. At the '93 Atlanta CoCoFest, someone said that Linux
was more like OS-9 than Unix, so I kept an eye on Linux, and started
playing around with that in '95. My OS-9 and OSK experience were very
handy in learning Linux. Now I'm a hardcore Linux user.


I have a lot of CoCo stuff. I never threw out anything 'till a few years
ago when it had gotten wet due to bad luck. I know my CoCo2 with the
6847T1 wired up to switches to control it was thrown out, but I can't
remember if anything else was. At one of the Atlanta CoCoFests someone
was selling CoCo2s that were used in a school, and they didn't have an
RF output, they had a composite output. By the end of the show they were
giving them away. I think I got two of those, but I can't find them
anywhere. I was hoping to get some pictures of them to share with
everyone, since I suspect very few people know about them or have seen
them. I have a lot of books and manuals, but very few magazines. I even
have some 'new', still sealed, coco software.