[Coco] 30 years...time flies

[rcrislip]

On Wed, 22 Mar 2017 01:12:54 +0000
James Ross <jrosslist at outlook.com> wrote:

> Mark McDougall said:
> > My original Coco was donated to the family of my father's friend
> > around the time I was getting into the Amiga, so I thought nothing
> > of it.   
> 
> I wanted an Amiga back in the day… when I finally got to where I
> could have afforded one, I was already dug-in on PC’s and at that
> point it never crossed my mind to get one. I am considering getting
> one at some point in the future as part of this retro hobby thing. 
> 
> > These days I keep a lazy eye on local eBay auctions hoping it'll
> > turn up again   
> 
> That would be amazing if it did!
> 
> > Fortunately I have pretty much every other bit of significant
> > hardware my father and/or I owned.   
> 
> That is way cool! I wish I’d had the insight to do the same… 
> 
> James
> 

Are you coming to the CoCoFest? I am bringing an Amiga 2000 to give
away to the club for the no minimum bid auction. It works, used to have
the Video Toaster (still have it and associated blender cards). I do
not have the necessary software to see if they are still working. But
the ole Amy does.