[Coco] De-lurk!

mike delyea mdelyea at gmail.com
Mon Dec 30 22:22:33 EST 2013


Welcome.  I mostly lurk, but make the occasional post.


On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 10:08 PM, Bill Pierce <ooogalapasooo at aol.com> wrote:

>
> Welcome back Christopher!
> We've probably had more to come back to the Coco this year than any. Seems
> to be an "I'm getting older and have nothing I'd rather do" thing.
> I hope you still have all your gear, sounds like a nice setup :-)
>
> Bill Pierce
> My Music from the Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer 2 & 3
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>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Barnett Fox <cbfox01 at syr.edu>
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Mon, Dec 30, 2013 9:03 pm
> Subject: [Coco] De-lurk!
>
>
> Greetings, fellow CoCo-heads!
>
> I¹m de-lurking, after following the list for a few weeks now.
>
> My first computer was a CoCo 1 (32K?), given to me and my brother by our
> parents back in the very early '80s. I was maybe 7 or 8 years old at the
> time. Fell in love with the thing, programming in BASIC, and dialing up
> BBSes in the Richmond, Virginia area. Upgraded to a 64K CoCo 2 with floppy
> drives, then finally, a 512K CoCo 3 with MPI, Deluxe RS-232, dual
> floppies, CM-8, etc., running OS-9 Lvl II. I remember how amazed my
> friends were when I showed them OS-9 windowing, and my RS DT-1 terminal
> hooked up from another room to the RS-232 pak.
>
> Anyway, I'm getting back into retro-computing after a very long hiatus.
> I'm learning much, and I'm amazed at the incredible work done by a
> passionate few to keep this hobby alive. DriveWire blows my mind! :-)
>
> Thanks for such a passionate and informative community.
>
> Christopher Fox
>
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