[Coco] old newbie on the list

[Salvador Garcia]

Totally awesome! I also see that it will work with Vcc. Really no reason to ot get started!


Thanks,
Salvador



-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Pereira <spereira1952 at comcast.net>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sat, Aug 15, 2015 11:53 am
Subject: Re: [Coco] old newbie on the list


Hi Salvadore,

Absolutely yes.

smp
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Stephen M. Pereira
Bedford, NH 
03110
KB1SXE


> On Aug 15, 2015, at 12:43 PM, Salvador Garcia
<ssalvadorgarcia at netscape.net> wrote:
> 
> Could this work if I have a CoCo SDC
instead of a physical disk drive?
> 
> 
> Thanks, Salvador
> 
> 
> 
> 
>
-----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Pereira <spereira1952 at comcast.net>
>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Sat,
Aug 15, 2015 7:30 am
> Subject: Re: [Coco] old newbie on the list
> 
> 
>
BlameTroi,
> 
> Welcome back to the CoCo community!
> 
> Please note that you
can get
> back into Forth on the CoCo.  If you have a CoCo, I have modified the
Talbot
> Microsystems Color Forth to work on any CoCo with Disk Extended Color
Basic
> (DECB).  So, a CoCo with one disk drive, or with Drivewire substituting
for your
> disk storage will give you the best of both - CoCo and Forth.
> 
>
Good luck to
> you,
> smp
> --
> Stephen M. Pereira
> Bedford, NH  03110
>
KB1SXE
> 
> 
>> On Aug 15, 2015, at
> 8:10 AM, BlameTroi <blametroi at gmail.com>
wrote:
>> 
>> Hi. BlameTroi is Troy
> Brumley. I was an avid coco user back in
the day and
>> wrote articles for Color
> Computer News, Rainbow, and Color
Micro Journal. I
>> wrote a macro key assembler
> program as my first serious
article in Color
>> Computer News. I can't remember
> the name of the hard
sectored DOS from a
>> guy in Arizona, but that was my first
> set of disks for
my coco. I even did
>> the soldered upgrade to 32K :)
>> 
>> I
> can't find any
of my old stuff digitized, and my paper copies are long
>> gone
> after a messy
divorce :(
>> 
>> I got kicked out of the workforce a couple of
> years ago
(disability) and as
>> I cast about for something to do, I discovered
> that
retro computing is a
>> thing. Right now I'm most seriously looking at
>
relearning Forth but want to
>> start watching the coco community as well. As
it
> was back in the day, all
>> the attention seems to go to the more
successful but
> less interesting
>> systems, so I was surprised to find much of
anything on the
> coco. There's
>> some kickstarter for a C64 book, wtf :)
>>

>> L8r,
>> 
>> Troy.
>> 
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