[Coco] [Color Computer] Age Poll at Maltedmedia List

[Larry Osborne]

I am resending this and I trust it will eventually find the correct list. 
When I responded to Merv's email I found out that he was on a list that I am 
not a member of.

Larry Osborne


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry Osborne" <larrybo at idirect.com>
To: <ColorComputer at yahoogroups.com>; "CoCoList for Color 
ComputerEnthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 12:59 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] [Color Computer] Age Poll at Maltedmedia List


 Merv
   I can't take the local record away from you ( I am sure there are others 
not present who could though).  I am a mere??? 61.  I got my first CoCo as 
my post Christmas present in 1982 to myself.  It is frightening now to think 
that a CoCo, Spectaculator, and a few games plus some tapes and cassette of 
course could add up to almost $1500 Canadian.  This CoCo was sold to me as a 
32K CoCo with the 64K CoCo being still more expensive,  the only thing was 
that it was the commonly called 'F' board or more properly a '285' board 
which never had a true 32K memory, if it had 32K it had a useable 64K 
memory.  Which explains why they couldn't upgrade it later to 64K when I 
asked for an upgrade.  Later in the decade, I got a CoCo 3 with 512  K 
memory board and enjoyed and used it until "97.  My CoCo's served me long 
and well (as did the club (TCCC)).  I finally (Fef 2004) gave away my CoCo 
literature and equipment (all 17 boxes of them) when I finally realized that 
I had to find them a new home as they were not going to be set up here again 
as there was simply no space for them in my small apartment, though the odd 
item keeps popping up. Just recently found a few original 5.25 diskettes (2 
Dynaspell and the Wiz from Frank Hogg Laboraties although manuals went with 
the 17 boxes, if anyone wants these let me know email larrybo at idirect.com to 
arrange it.
    In Aug 1983, I found the The Toronto Colour Computer Club demonstrating 
the CoCo at a Computer Show at Harbourfront here in Toronto and joined 
immediately.  At various times over the next 10 years I seved as Treasurer, 
Vice President, and President. I remember Mike Fisher, Merv Curley, Paul 
Hazelwood, and many others in the club fondly.    I still remain on the list 
simply because even without a CoCo, I still  like to see what is going on in 
the community.
 Larry Osborne

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "mervcur" <mervc at eol.ca>
> To: <ColorComputer at yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 10:47 AM
> Subject: [Coco] [Color Computer] Age Poll at Maltedmedia List
>
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>> There is a poll going on to see what the distribution of Coco Users
>> is, by age.  We can see all posts here so there is no need to send a
>> message to the list.
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>> Any who are willing to supply this info, are encouraged to.  Some
>> old friends like Gene Heskett are not represented yet.
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>> The graph so far can be viewed at -
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>> http://www-users.rwth-aachen.de/torsten.dittel/CoCo/cocoage.gif
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>> Oldest on the list is ' me '.  Anyone able to take that spot away?
>>
>> Merv
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