[Coco] Who did the R-RATED "Donkey Kong" hack?

[Allen Huffman]

On Dec 24, 2013, at 6:32 PM, John Donaldson <johnab8yz at verizon.net> wrote:

> Allen,
>  There were two people that wrote this patch. Both were members of the old JSC COCO Club way back when. BTW at one time
> this COCO club had over 100 members and the largest library of COCO programs and magazines anywhere around. 99% of the members were NASA Engineers and Technicians. The highlight of the club was when two of the Engineers took a COCO1, added an
> extra PIA, interfaced a VOTRAX chip to it, and wrote a OS9 LVL1 driver to run the chip. This was to make a talking word processor for a blind female who was the Secretary for the Vice Director of Engineering.
> 
> John Donaldson

So there is a chance I really met one of the folks who did that, in Houston, back then. Cool. Do you recall who it was?

Did you know a Radio Shack guy named Don Burr?

		-- A