[Coco] Introductions

[dwight.bazinet at gmail.com]

I was a TACCO... not the Taco Bell kind.  Tactical Coordinator, original my trade was Air Navigator in the Canadian Forces, but when I left it was Air Combat Systems Officer in the Royal Canadian Air Force.

-----Original Message-----
From: Coco [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Dave Philipsen
Sent: October-06-17 3:55 PM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Subject: Re: [Coco] Introductions

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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