[Coco] KIDS REACT TO OLD COMPUTERS

[Al Hartman]

I've been using computers on-line with BBS systems since 1981 or so. I could 
use my TRS-80 Model I, a Model III, later my first XT Clone, my Coco 
w/Colorcom/E, my Atari-ST, my Amiga 500, and back to PCs and AOL, eventually 
becoming the full-fledged internet in the mid 90's.

I've found all of those computers easy to use. I also learned the C-64 and 
Apple ][ series.

AOL started out on the C-64 as Quantum-Link. And, before moving to Windows 
there was a DOS based AOL running under a GUI called GEOWorks which is now 
called Breadbox.

I don't find modern computers any more difficult than old text-based 
computers.

In that video, they just didn't take the time to show the kids anything 
useful. If they had put GEOS on the Apple ][e, the kids would have felt 
right at home.

Or, if they had run Oregon Trail, the kids would have loved the game.

I used to have to shoo kids out of my Radio Shack store when we ran Megabugs 
on our display Coco.

-[ Al ]-