[Coco] Conversation with a Tiger Direct rep...

[Jim Cox]

Brain:

It's funny how you can just bump into people who at one 
time had CoCo's.  A long time ago I tried starting up a 
local CoCo and OS9 group here in Seattle, and instead of 
getting members, I ended up rescuing a lot of CoCo stuff, 
that I have given to others.

The CoCo is a fun little computer and now that I am set up 
and playing with it more, I really regret the time when I 
stopped using it and focused on the Atari ST instead. 
 That community seems to have died out completely, while 
the CoCo Community still keep plugging along.

I hope the person you met from Tiger joins us.

Cheers!

Jim

On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 16:38:04 -0700 (PDT)
  Brian Blake <random_rodder at yahoo.com> wrote:
> So... I was setting up a commercial account for my 
>company with Tiger Direct the other day. The rep they 
>assigned to me, Todd,  is in NC, originally from my neck 
>of the woods here in Florida. We got to talking about 
>Florida in general, when the conversation got back to 
>computers and he asked me how long I've been working with 
>computers. I told him my first computer was a TRS-80 
>Color Computer, and I got it for my birthday in 1982. He 
>mentioned had a TRS computer of some sort and I asked him 
>to describe it and he said it was small and grey. I asked 
>if it was a complete self contained system or if it 
>plugged into a TV and had color, he said color. I told 
>him I had several versions of it still and the little 
>beastie had a decent following still. I gave him the 
>address to CoCo3.com, told him about Glenside, Cloud9 and 
>the mailing list. 
> 
> He asked about the best way to get a CoCo again and I 
>recommended eBay and Cloud9. He brought up the fact that 
>hardware must be getting difficult to find. I told him 
>that the biggest concern that a lot of us have is floppy 
>controllers as most things have replacements via Cloud9, 
>monitor adapters via Roy, and many in the CoCo community 
>can throw other items together as needed. He said he was 
>going to check it out, so, we may have another CoCoist 
>come back home.
> 
> 
> Later,
> 
> Brian
> 
> 
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