[Coco] Re: Coco Digest, Vol 10, Issue 114

[Bob Devries]

Frank, that brings back memories!!!

Way back in the '80s, I led a usergroup at a school, which had about 20
(IIRC) coco 1 grey case computers, with a similar setup. A friend and I
modified all those computers to have composite video out for a much better
picture, since the TV's used had composite inputs.

Each student's computer could be separately selected to save his/her data to
the teacher's computer, and an LED came on for each student that had typed
the CLOAD command, I guess the relay contacts were used to light the LED.

I wrote (with the help of another usergroup member), a machine code
programme to help the teacher find and send programmes off the disk drive,
to the cassette port. I remember spending hours on the phone in our
collabaration. What fun!

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Regards, Bob Devries. Dalby, Queensland, Australia.
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