[Coco] Introducing myself

richec rcrislip at neo.rr.com
Tue Oct 20 16:37:33 EDT 2020


On Mon, 19 Oct 2020 17:38:47 -0400
Martin Heermance <mheermance at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> My name is Martin Heermance and I'll introduce myself. I was in high
> school during the eight bit era, While I owned an Atari, I had a
> friend who had a CoCo Model 1. When I saw OS-9 I was impressed by the
> CoCo, but at the time floppy drives were insanely expensive, so it
> was out of my league.
> 
> Fifteen years ago I bought a TI-99 and CoCo 2 to show my kids what
> computers were like. It turned out to be a great idea because
> plugging cartridges into a system was so intuitive. So they enjoyed
> some of the old eight bit games.
> 
> I've continued to play with them since then, including getting a coco
> SDC and installing NitrOS-9.
> 
> Martin
> 

Welcome to the group.


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