[Coco] old newbie on the list

[Stephen Pereira]

BlameTroi,

Welcome back to the CoCo community!

Please note that you can get back into Forth on the CoCo.  If you have a CoCo, I have modified the Talbot Microsystems Color Forth to work on any CoCo with Disk Extended Color Basic (DECB).  So, a CoCo with one disk drive, or with Drivewire substituting for your disk storage will give you the best of both - CoCo and Forth.

Good luck to you,
smp
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Stephen M. Pereira
Bedford, NH  03110
KB1SXE


> On Aug 15, 2015, at 8:10 AM, BlameTroi <blametroi at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi. BlameTroi is Troy Brumley. I was an avid coco user back in the day and
> wrote articles for Color Computer News, Rainbow, and Color Micro Journal. I
> wrote a macro key assembler program as my first serious article in Color
> Computer News. I can't remember the name of the hard sectored DOS from a
> guy in Arizona, but that was my first set of disks for my coco. I even did
> the soldered upgrade to 32K :)
> 
> I can't find any of my old stuff digitized, and my paper copies are long
> gone after a messy divorce :(
> 
> I got kicked out of the workforce a couple of years ago (disability) and as
> I cast about for something to do, I discovered that retro computing is a
> thing. Right now I'm most seriously looking at relearning Forth but want to
> start watching the coco community as well. As it was back in the day, all
> the attention seems to go to the more successful but less interesting
> systems, so I was surprised to find much of anything on the coco. There's
> some kickstarter for a C64 book, wtf :)
> 
> L8r,
> 
> Troy.
> 
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