[Coco] Introductions

[Dave Philipsen]

Cool!  Are you a pilot?

Dave


On 10/6/2017 11:52 AM, dwight.bazinet at gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
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> Dennis asked that I post the comments here as an introduction.
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> I just bought a CoCo3 on eBay (hope it works!); I'm interested in something
> simpler then my day job (I'm a senior system engineer at a major defense
> firm, my last job before I got out of the military was designing tactical
> systems in a maritime helicopter).
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> I'm interested in a coco sdc (v2?) , the Retro CoCoMem, the Ed Snider
> replacement GIME (or the GIME and memory on one GIME replacement), etc.
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> I had a CoCo1 and a CoCo3 in the 80s with a disk drive (then modified to
> double sided if I remember right), while I was working on a combined BEng
> and BSc CompSci (only finished the BSc).
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> Basically the simplicity of the older hardware makes it more fun to tinker
> with, especially with my kids, although I do have a Arduino and screen and
> will probably get a Pi.
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> I'm also interested in flight sims and recently bought  set of real Cessna
> controls to figure out how to do force feedback with them, and am working on
> a simple and cheap LCD with controller that can do gauges.
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> Dwight Bazinet
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> PS, a question: is the Gmane list not updating for recent posts?  I see they
> are having server issues.
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