[Coco] Tandy Electronics??!!

[Nick Marentes]

On 2/01/2015 10:39 AM, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
> Retro stuff is a lot more diverse than modern desktop operating systems,
> but I think you're right that the coco would not be ranked highly as a
> popular retro platform.  If you expanded to all 6809 based systems you
> could pick up a few more (vectrex has a following) but those are basically
> the "other" of an "other".

Now Vectrex is an interesting one. I recall speaking to John Kowalski 
some years back and he was quite convinced that a vectrex emulator is 
quite possible on theCoCo3. They both use a 6809 and it would require 
software on the CoCo to emulate the vecter display output of the 
Vectrex. A vectrex emulator then opens the door to running almost all 
the cartridges unmodified (as image dumps).

I wonder if Luis is up for the challenge?   :)
> Ive only been to 2 retrocomputing events, but at both I went with the only
> folks who demoed coco gear.  Commodore 64/128/Vic 20 stuff is probably the
> biggest group with Apple II stuff coming next.  Then you have the amigas
> and atari's, then some trs80 model i/iii, maybe a few CPM machines, and
> *then* the cocos if I had to guess.  Of course coco are the best machines
> in all cases.
>

I have to give my bias opinion... yes, the CoCo3 is the best!   :)

I do have a soft spot for the Amigas though.

Nick