[Coco] [Color Computer] Let me introduce myself

[Rod Barnhart]

Hi Ben! Welcome!

I've noticed that a lot of people introduce themselves when they sign
up to the list. I don't recall, but I don't think I ever did that.
Could be because I'm one of the lurkers of the list. As much as I love
my CoCo, I don't have a lot of time to get it out of mothballs and
fire it up. Like a couple of others on this list (or at least one!)
I've gone back to school after all this time to formalize my computer
education. Maybe over summer break I'll get a chance to try to find
out what happened to the biggest part of my CoCo collection.

Most of my collection went missing some time back. From what I can
find, I still have a CoCo 3 and a CoCo2. I've got a FD-500 (or 501. I
can't remember which) with full-height drives, and an FD-502 with
half-height drives. I've got a dot-matrix printer that is still new in
the box that I can't remember the model number of. I've also got a
speech pack, a DC modem (that's is halfway through the conversion to a
RS-232). I had a CM-8 until it died recently. I've got various mice,
joysticks, tape drives.

Missing from my collection is about half a dozen CoCo 2's, two
grey-case CoCo 1's (one 4K, the other had been upgraded.
Unfortunately, someone stole the ram back out of it before giving it
to me), my somewhat extensive collection of Rainbox magazines, several
CGA monitors that I've used with my tre's, and a CoCo 3 that I had
done some modifications to (the turbo LED, hacked bit-banger to do
higher speeds, piggyback 6309, 9-pin d-sub connector for the CGA
monitors). Unfortunately, I seem to have lost this bunch of stuff at
some point. I don't remember throwing any of it out, which I'd never
do because it's CoCo, and I know I've seen it since my last move
(which was, admittedly, quite some time ago), but I can't seem to find
this stuff anywhere. Hopefully it turns up, but I fear it's lost for
good.



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Rod Barnhart aka Wintermute (http://www.nitemarecafe.com)