[Coco] [Spam] Re: The CoCo outside of the U.S.

[Simon Jonassen]

Hello there Thierry.....


My first ever comp was the COCO 2B.... (KOKO)

Then when i moved from the UK to DK i aquired a c64....

Most of my programming (demos, games, cracks etc.) was done on the c64....
Yes it's a nice machine lots of hardware to "take care of business"... 

But guess where i came back to now after 20+ years... Yup... The coco !

Why... Because it's underloved and underappreciated and probably hides alot
more secrets.....

The reason i am trying c64 effects on the coco is because it's what i
know....

Peace

/Simon :-)
 

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Fra: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] På
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Sendt: 16. april 2013 17:33
Til: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Emne: [Spam] Re: [Coco] The CoCo outside of the U.S.

Hi Fedor,

Nice to hear from you ! How are you ?

> I can confirm what Torsten and Thierry wrote. For me, I was growing up 
> in the Netherlands (Holland) and Radio Shack was represented here by 
> the "Tandy" stores by which it was known. I reckon the name "Tandy" 
> worked better than "Radio Shack" for people in this part of the world.

The same in Belgium.

> But Commodore 64 was much more popular.

Always that bloody C64 !!!

> At one time I used to be bullied by
> a guy who had a C64. We both went to some electronics course  in the 
> evenings at school. He kept calling me "Tandy boy" and tried to be 
> intimidating, intercepting me as I was trying to bike home. Those were 
> the days...

The C64 was for the kids who said to theirs parents "I want to learn
computer science" and, instead, plays games with it all the time.

The Coco was for the neirdy guy who really wants to program.

But I recognize that I was jealous of the plain screen text editor of the
C64.
In counterpart, the 6809 was much more powerful than the 6502 !

Note that Dragon 32 was also popular. And there was a challenge to translate
the Coco programs in Dragon programs in my school.

Thierry

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I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.


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