[Coco] Re: The CoCo Cafe

[Roger Taylor]

At 05:10 PM 8/16/2004, you wrote:
> > The chat system is back up if anybody wants to give it a test.
>For those of us who entered the conversation in the middle,
>how about providing a URL with your invitation?
>It sounds like you are putting in a lot of hard work, but for
>what? The Yahoo! CoCo Group has a chat room:
>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ColorComputer/chat
>Is there something wrong with that one? You have to register with
>Yahoo! for "free" (if you don't mind a little extra spam.) You
>need a Java plugin for your browser, but those are also free.
>Is everyone else getting online **with their CoCos?** At 9600
>baud or less? Now, that would be true dedication.
>Is this a text-only chat room?
>Thanks for your patience with my impertinent questions.
>David


Hey, David.  Ok, let me try to answer your questions in order:

The URL is www.CoCo3.com.   I try to provide a central location for CoCo 
users to stay in touch and check out each other's online material.

I've always worked hard on the web site since day 1, but I think it's been 
static for too long.  I think that using commercial tools for live chat is 
okay but it's kinda hard for everybody to find these tools or even agree on 
the best one.  I plan to customize our system based on feedback.  That is, 
I'm building it for you and everyone else.

I think it's safe to say that we own many types of computers other than 
just the CoCo, and that it's probably not a CoCo we're using to surf the 
web.  However, I did start surfing the web and using e-mail from Disk BASIC 
using the Ultimaterm comm program back in the late 80's.  I was loaned a 
college account from a younger friend, and I used PINE and WWW to reach out 
and touch the world from my little CoCo.  I did this for years.  Everything 
was all text, ofcourse.  Then, they dropped shell accounts at my local ISP.

The CoCo3.com chat system uses basic HTML to show the messages which are 
text-only for now.  I might add smilies later.  :)


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Roger Taylor