[Coco] Introductions

[rcrislip]

On Fri, 6 Oct 2017 13:55:07 -0500
Dave Philipsen <dave at davebiz.com> wrote:

> Cool!  Are you a pilot?
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
> On 10/6/2017 11:52 AM, dwight.bazinet at gmail.com wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >   
> >
> > Dennis asked that I post the comments here as an introduction.
> >
> >   
> >
> > 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).
> >
> >   
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >   
> >
> > 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).
> >
> >   
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >   
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >   
> >
> > Dwight Bazinet
> >
> >   
> >
> > PS, a question: is the Gmane list not updating for recent posts?  I
> > see they are having server issues.
> >
> >  
> 
> 

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