[Coco] Anyone else collect other old computers/game consoles beside the Coco?

[Frank Pittel]

Currently my only "retro" computing interest centers around the Coco and
various variations like the coco3fpga project. As it is I don't have enough
time or money for all of my hobbies!

The Other Frank


On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 07:11:13PM -0400, Jeremy Michea wrote:
> I thought it might be an interesting discussion. Obviously we all
> love the Coco but what else do you love? Many of you may know that
> I'm a huge Atari fan and have been collecting for the Atari
> 2600/7800 and 8-bit line of computers for about 20 years now, on and
> off as it was my first console in 1980. Through the 80's I also
> owned the original Nintendo (NES) and Turbografx-16 but the only
> computer I used aside from PC's (late 80's and early 90's) was my
> beloved Coco.
> 
> As a side note, I almost didn't get a coco. Brand loyalty at the
> time lead our family to buy an Atari 800XL but my father wasn't
> interested in buying all new software and games for a new system so
> a friend suggested the coco since he had all kinds of software to
> share with us (well, copied software on cassettes but as a 13 year
> old in 1982 I wasn't aware or concerned about piracy so that's
> another story) so we got a used Coco 1 with the chicklet keyboard, a
> cassette player and a bunch of cassettes with, yes, mostly games. I
> did do some homework but lets be honest, I spent most of my time
> playing some great coco 1 games.
> 
> As another side, yet rambling note, what BBS's did any of you use
> back in the day? Here in Southern Ontario, the one I used the most
> in my area was called "Route 66". I believe it was the only coco
> based BBS in my area where it seemed predominately Commodore 64.
> Also downloaded a lot of software from Route 66 as well as a local
> coco user group that met once a month in a local french public
> school.
> 
> I remember being so excited when the Coco 3 was announced. I spent
> the summer prior to its release in the glorious field (literally) of
> corn detasseling to save up the money to buy my brand new Coco 3. I
> remember being in complete awe of the demo in the store and the
> manager was nice enough to make a disk copy that I played a lot at
> home. :)
> 
> Anyway, I've rambled enough. Anyone else have any stories about
> their other retro passions, coco musings, etc? :)
> 
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