[Coco] The CoCo Crew Podcast -- Episode 95 is available!

[Jeff Teunissen]

On Tue, May 2, 2023, 11:41 AM Jim Brain (2022-23 GCCC President) via Coco <
coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:

> In researching, I found a few tidbits of trivia:
>
>   * During the first fest, at least some of the time, the word was
>     styled as "CoCofest" and included "last" in the quotes, so "last
>     CoCofest"!
>     (https://www.glensideccc.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/gccc12_4nl.pdf
>     , page 3)
>   * Since the first show was in Volume 12 of the newsletter, I assume
>     the club was 12 years old in 1992, or started in 1980 or earlier.
>   * The show was a division of DNM Enterprises, Inc, a corporation of
>     the state of Michigan.  There's got to be a story there. (DNM might
>     be wrong, the copy online is hard to read at that size of text)
>   * Tony Podraza was President during the initial years.  I have not
>     looked through all the records, but Tony's been president for a
>     "long" time.
>

I believe DNM is "Dave and Nancy Myers", who had what was probably the last
"big" (non-hobby) CoCo business, CoCoPRO!

In the later years after Tandy left, as the major hardware and software
vendors were shutting down, Dave was snapping up their unsold inventory and
selling them out of his location in the Detroit area.

CoCoPRO! sponsored the first few "Last" CoCoFests.

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