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

[Steve Batson]

If I had the Room, Money and Time, I'd collect a lot of that old stuff. 
Though I really only have expereince with the CoCo and only seen the other 
stuff at friends homes or in the store. Still, I think all that stuff is 
cool. However, reality keeps me with just the CoCo and even much of that is 
packed in boxes at the moment with just my CoCo3 I'm trying to get working 
with my LCD monitor :)

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From: "Frank Pittel" <fwp at deepthought.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2011 5:47 PM
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Subject: Re: [Coco] Anyone else collect other old computers/game consoles 
beside the Coco? 

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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