[Coco] Re: Old Color Computer Information

[ostro011]

Art, I did a bit more searching and found that there is a site named
computeruser.com that publishes a more generic magazine in a few widely
separated states.  I think it may be a free newspaper-style periodical.  It
claims to have been around since 1982, so it may be the same one, but maybe
changed to a format with broader appeal when Tandy started to go away from
its own line of computers, but this is just a guess.

I sent them an e-mail asking to buy possible back issues of the magazine to
see if it the same as the one issue I have.  I would love to get the entire
set that was published if available, and if more than one issue actually
made it to press.  It's a beautiful issue, so I can't help but feel it must
have had a decent start-up.

-- Steve --


On 13 Oct 2003, Arthur Flexser wrote:
> 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 --
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Arthur Flexser wrote:
> > 
> > >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
> > >
> > >
> > >On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, ostro011 wrote:
> > >
> > >  
> > >
> > >>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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