[Coco] Re: Old Color Computer Information

[Arthur Flexser]

Thanks, Steve.  Still rings zero bells, though.  Wonder how I managed to
avoid familiarity with that one.  I gather that the publisher had some
connection with Tandy, judging from the address.  I remember that Tandy
did have some sort of publication, maybe called Microcomputer News or
something like that.  But it was little more than a newsletter, more like
a dozen pages than 196.

Art

On Sun, 12 Oct 2003, Steve Ostrom wrote:

> Art, here are some of the details:
> 
> Computer User - For the Tandy/Radio Shack System
> Premiere Issue $2.95
> Vol. 1, Issue 1   November 1983
> Publisher Robert S. Jones
> Published monthly by McPheters, Wolfe & Jones, Cerritos, CA
> Copyright 1983 by Interface Age Magazine, Inc.
> Regional Office : Tandy Center Atrium #550, Fort Worth, TX  76102
> First issue was 196 pages and William Barden, Jr. was one of the 
> featured contributing editors
> 
> -- Steve --
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> Arthur Flexser wrote:
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> >Computer User?  I don't remember that one at all.  Was it particularly
> >focussed on the CoCo?  The name rings zero bells for me.
> >
> >Art
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> >On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, ostro011 wrote:
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> >>I'm a bit nostalgic about computers.  (OK, very nostalgic.)  I guess that's
> >>why I love all my Cocos so much.  I also enjoy looking back at old
> >>Coco-related magazines for interesting items.
> >>
> >>I was able to buy the 200 page premier issue of Computer User (Nov, 83) a
> >>few days ago and thoroughly enjoyed reading it, not only for the old ads
> >>but for little bits of info.  William Barden, Jr. started his assembly
> >>language articles in this issue, and there was a cool simple cassette cable
> >>switchbox do-it-yourself article which helped to speed up cassette
> >>functions on the Coco.
> >>
> >>I also learned a few things I didn't know before.  There was a Q and A
> >>session which discussed bugs.  For example, in Extended Color BASIC 1.0,
> >>"PRINT USING with exponents gives answers in base 12 instead of base 10."
> >>This is cool stuff.
> >>
> >>Also, in an article by William D. Allen, he gives this bit of info.  "There
> >>are two kinds of disks: a hard disk and a floppy disk.  A floppy disk
> >>refers to the original 8" monsters.  The disks you use with your TRS-80 are
> >>diskettes."
> >>
> >>Oh, well.  Just had to share a few of these fun things.
> >>
> >>-- Steve --
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