[Coco] Using my CoCo for teaching

[Ronivon Costa]

Carry on, that is nice and enthusiastic.
I wish I could bring my brazilian Coco clone "CP-400 Color 2" to my
workplace find something useful to do with it - even if only to lend to one
of those that spend the day playing solitaire!
:)



On 4 March 2015 at 15:42, Joe Grubbs <jsgrubbs at hotmail.com> wrote:

> A few friends and I teach a JavaScript class a couple nights a week. It's
> through a Meetup group, and we generally get a pretty enthusiastic crowd.
> Sometimes recruiters show up and offer free food and swag. Overall it's a
> pretty cool deal.
>
> Anyway, lately my teaching focus has been on NodeJS. While trying to think
> of a topic to cover for last night's class, I happened to glance at the
> serial port class library for Node, and this gave me a hair brained idea
> that would allow me to leverage my obsession with retro-computing. I
> decided to discuss and demonstrate the creation of a DLOAD server in Node.
>
> The actual coding didn't get very far last night because our discussion
> sort of went off on all kinds of crazy tangents: Color Computer history,
> Radio Shack's bankruptcy, RS-232 protocol, and somehow even teletype
> machines. However much my to relief everyone seemed enthusiastic about the
> idea, especially after I showed them the DLOAD protocol documentation.
>
> Next time I'm bringing one of my CoCo2s with me and we're going to try to
> make some magic happen. If it doesn't work, then oh well, it would have
> still been a fun and effective teaching exercise.
>
> Just figured I'd share. Carry on!
>
> -Joe
>
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