[Coco] Old techies

[Mark McDougall]

Bill wrote:

> Just out of curiosity, what is the average age of this group. I'm 60, and
> had my first CoCo in 1980 (that precious grey machine- 4k "baby basic" and a
> cassette recorder)

Just turned 43.

The grey Coco (1) with the chiclet keyboard was the first computer I "owned" 
- my father bought it for me, no doubt so he could actually use his Model I. 
Somewhere between its heyday and the time I got into retro computing, my 
father gave it away to a more "needy" home. By then it had a half decent 
keyboard, 64KB RAM and a floppy disk controller. I did find a CocoMax 
cartridge a few years back in the roof of my parents' home.

Adopted a Coco 3 more recently with Tandy floppy controller and invested in 
the Cloud 9 512KB upgrade - mostly so I could see Donkey Kong running on 
real hardware! ;)

Regards,

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