[Coco] What are some good starting points for a CoCo noob (me)?

[richard]

If you are serious about learning the CoCo, I'd suggest that you purchase one 
if you haven't already. After you do obtain an working CoCo (with disk drives 
or a DriveWire which uses you PC as a disk drive) go through Radio Shack's 
Manuals and learn Color Basic. Then obtain and learn OS-9. You can reverse 
the order if you want, but the bottom line is you have to crawl before you 
can walk.