[Coco] Hello to my fellow Enthusiasts!

[David Ladd]

Welcome back Corey. Glad you have most of your original stuff and acquiring
more goodness :)

Hope you enjoy yourself here :)

On Sunday, August 30, 2015, Corey Bryant <coreybryant at classicpm.com> wrote:

> Hello all.  New member here.  I regret that it took me this long to unpack
> my gear and rejoin everyone that held on to a very great thing.   But, life
> happens.  I'm 38,  and started with CoCos and Model X machines in roughly
> 1985 at the age of 9 when I found a bunch of TRS-80 hardware in the closet
> of a home my parents bought from my dad's best friend who said they didn't
> want it anymore, and thought I might like it.  It was a goldmine.  Complete
> with a CoCo 1 including monitor and MPI, a CoCo 2 64k  with MPI/Disk
> Drives/Cassette Player, a Model 3, and tons of software, cassettes,
> cartridges, a modem, cables and everything else I needed.     At that point
> I'd never done anything but play arcade games.   So, naturally I absolutely
> cherished these things.   I dove in and within a year was using the modem
> to dial local BBSes I'd found in a list, using a BASIC terminal program I'd
> found the code for in a book.   I retired the TRS-80 gear in 1993, and went
> the IBM compatible route.  Hating every minute of it, but knowing it was
> the future.
>
> I still have my original  CoCo 2, disk drives, cassette player, plus a
> CoCo 3 128k, Model 3 and both a Model 4 and 4P that my dad had bought me
> later on.  The CoCo 1,  and MPIs I no longer have.
> Just yesterday, I was lucky enough to pick up 512k CoCo 3 with the
> "Forgotten Chip" OS-9 serial port mod which I've been playing with to see
> if it's operational.  This will be the CoCo I use for everything.  I also
> scored a couple of very clean disk drives with it.  Oh!  I bought a MPI for
> the CoCo 3 with the PAL mods already done from someone I met over in the
> Facebook group .  Happy about that, as those seem to be hard to come by and
> I was sad that mine was gone.   I've  picked up a CoCo SDC from Ed, as well
> as ordered a RGB2VGA mod kit and  Cloud 9 will be getting some of my money
> soon enough.    I bought a CoCo Assembly book and EDTASM+ this past week so
> I also plan to learn some things there too.
>
> To wrap this up, I'll say that I am really happy to see this many people
> still showing this much love for the CoCo.   These days, I'm the IT
> Director for a large property management firm, and I own a small data
> services company on the side so I'm surrounded by technology in a manner
> where everything is never working exactly as it should at any given time.
>  I'd forgotten how nice it was to walk up to a machine, turn it on, and it
> works.  Even 30 years later.  On the flip side, there would be far fewer
> guys like me making a living at this if they still made them like they used
> to.   This much, I know.
>
> Pardon the mini-novel but I'm sure I'll be around indefinitely so I wanted
> to tell my story.  :)
>
> Corey
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