[Coco] The kindness and generosity of the CoCo community

Mon Aug 19 00:44:10 EDT 2013

I've felt the same thing several times, over the last 2 years, to acquire precious gifts on ebay, I could never have them, I could never buy, I live in Venezuela and it was not easy.

Now if I can and I've become a compulsive shopping maniac, I'm better, calmer, but what I felt when my package was receiving was indescribable. almost better than sex, lol

Buy an MPI and I get a new, unopened factory, immaculately white, I'm afraid to have it on the desk, I do not want to become yellow, lol

Buy a New TANO DRAGON (fully)

one entirely new orchestra
one completely new sound pack
CR-82 tarball recorder, did not know how small it was, never met him, with leather case, brand new, impressive, but with bad gum drag, for the time, no problem the seek.

Buy the entire collection of raimbow, I was missing, and I was missing hotcoco, and color computer magazine too, and everything is almost complete, I like to read at night, and not whether it would be better with a tablet and an ebook PDF, but it has the same smell, texture and other things, lol

Several completely new games, I enjoy the manual and add

3 coco

and many books

I have to stop, lol

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> From: tonym at compusource.net
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2013 10:14:40 -0400
> Subject: Re: [Coco] The kindness and generosity of the CoCo community
> 
> I've dealt with Steve Ostrom on a few occasions, on and off this list, and via eBay (quite a while back)
> 
> And yeah, he's a class act, as are most on here. It's the nature of the beast, as the thing that bonds us together is the CoCo, and for most, if not all of us, it is/was a MAJOR
> part of our life. The CoCo was the first "real" computer I had (I purposely leave out the Timex-Sinclair 1000) so I myself have special memories being a kid with a CoCo!
> 
> Glad you experienced what you did, and thanks for the story!
> 
> SteveO: Kudos !
> 
> Tony
> 
> PS - sorry for top posting, but my webmail absolutely SUCKS!
> 
> 
> ---- Original Message ----
> From: "Sean" <badfrog at gmail.com>
> Sent: 8/9/2013 12:26:31 AM
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Subject: Re: [Coco] The kindness and generosity of the CoCo community
> 
> I love reading these stories on the CoCo list.  Most people can't fathom
> how precious digital storage was back then, and that the best way to
> preserve code was to print it out.  That would be pure insanity today!
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 10:57 PM, Terrance Hale <mizagorn at att.net> wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > This is a big shout out to one Steve Ostrom mainly, but also to all you
> > others as I browse through emails. And here's why I was motivated to write
> > this...
> >
> > Some of you may recall that about three and a half years ago, I sent out a
> > request for a copy of the 2nd Rainbow Book of Adventures because a game I
> > wrote had been featured in it.  It was after scouring the internet for the
> > book that I ran across Dennis and the CoCo mailing list. After joining
> > (where Dennis very nicely got me set up after a problem with an email
> > account) and posting my inquiry, I received several helpful replies on
> > where to get a copy, how to go about it, etc., and it was working out that
> > Steve and Tim Fadden would make arrangements, but there would be a delay
> > because of one copy of the book being "snowed in" in a cabin.
> >
> > As life is, I got distracted and did not follow up on a reminder that
> > spring.
> >
> > Fast forward to last month, when I sent a followup email to both Steve and
> > Tim. After a while, I had given up hope and was going to have to go through
> > Amazon, when I got a message from Steve. He had been very busy, but would
> > shoot me another message when he had a chance to catch up.
> >
> > He wound up mailing me the book, at no charge. Here is part of my reply to
> > him:
> >
> > I have a hard time describing how I felt when I saw the package, opened it
> > up, and pulled out the book. It was like being transported in time back to
> > that period of wondrous, magical discovery, where "modern" programming
> > languages were relatively new and I was able to learn and consume as fast
> > as I could read and type. My breath was taken away and I almost started
> > crying. (That's between me and you ha ha.) I spent an hour just leafing
> > through the pages, reading introductions and code, thoroughly enjoying
> > myself. The thought processes I had writing the Adventure in BASIC came
> > back as easily as riding a bike after nearly 30 years. Memories of all the
> > years I got the Rainbow magazine and all the wonderful contributors flooded
> > my mind.
> > This is a real treasure to me, and I don't know what to do to express my
> > thrill at your massive generosity, except to give you a
> > from-the-heart-and-soul, resounding "THANK YOU!!!"  Maybe a man hug, too.
> > hehThis, again, is a huge example of what I see when I get a chance to see
> > what all you guys are up to.  Everyone so helpful, friendly, and
> > informative.
> >
> > Steve, may your PEEKs and POKEs always return the desired results, and may
> > your hardware never fail! :)
> >
> > Best to you all,
> > Terry
> >
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