[Coco] Old techies

[Carlos Bragatto]

Allen, I was born in 76, got my first computer, a Microdigital TK85, a 16K
Sinclair ZX81 clone, in 85, then an Apple II plus clone (CCE Exato), then
the list goes on and on...
:-D

Remember that the first home computers appeared in Brazil only in 1981/82,
because of the "Market Reservation", a stupid law imposed by the military
dictatorship en vogue by that time here, to make the Brazilian home computer
industry florish and grow.

Yeah right. It only gave governmental support for pirating foreign computers
:-D At the time, it was said that we were 7 years behind americans regarding
home computers. You know, the Prologica CP400, clone of the Tandy CoCo 2 was
released in late 85...

Carlos

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:

> On Feb 10, 2009, at 7:00 PM, Carlos Bragatto wrote:
>
>> You guys are being so inspirational to me, at the height of my nimble 32
>>
>
> So you would have been about three or four when the CoCo was first
> introduced? Wild. I dated a younger woman for awhile, and would pick on her
> saying I had a computer in my closet older than she was. ;-) Talk about
> making me feel old!
>
> After the last CoCoFest, I got a bit depressed thinking back. In 1990, me
> and Terry Todd bummed a ride in the back of a pickup truck which drove 2
> hours North from Houston to pick us up in Lufkin, Texas. We then rode to
> Atlanta, Georgia for the first Dave Myers/Atlanta Computer Society CoCoFest.
> I seem to recall at that first Fest, I wasn't 21 yet, and couldn't meet the
> "old folks" in the bar after hours.
>
> I look back, and suddenly that's 18 years later. From my first CoCo to that
> CoCoFest was a mere eight years. Then five more before I moved to Iowa in
> 1995 -- so now at 13 years with the CoCo. Then I remember the whole "CoCo
> 2000" idea -- let's take the CoCo to its 20th Anniversary... Now it's almost
> a decade past that. Wow.
>
> So to the rest of you guys out there... Seeing how I feel, you guys must
> REALLY feel old ;-)
>
> I can't think of a nicer group of folks to grow up around!!!
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