[Coco] My old TC-9

K. Pruitt pruittk at roadrunner.com
Tue Sep 15 18:05:49 EDT 2015


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Nobel" <b_nobel at hotmail.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Monday, September 14, 2015 1:37 PM
Subject: [Coco] My old TC-9


> Well over the weekend I stumbled across a post from Mark Marlette on 
> Facebook, as to the whereabouts of My TC-9 That Curtis and I created 
> Nitros9 on.  I left the TC-9 with Curtis as it was becoming very unstable 
> and basically unusable anymore.  This of course was many years ago.  I 
> learned Curtis donated it to Cloud9 back at a Chicago fest quite a few 
> years ago.  I am happy at least it didn’t end up going into a landfill.
>
> I tried to get Mark to let me buy it back, but he is going to keep it in 
> his collection.  I am very happy about that, it has a good home.  He is at 
> least going to check if the HD still works (if present) as that drive 
> would still have the source code for the very first run of Nitros9 that 
> Curtis and I created.  As my copies I lost a few years ago in a basement 
> flood.
>
> So needless to say Mark has one of the machines in his collection that can 
> be labeled as historic for the fact of first hardware that ran Nitros9 in 
> it’s creation.
>
> Bill Nobel
>
>
> -- 

That's pretty cool. I hope the source code is in fact there and recoverable. 
And many thanks to you and Curtis for creating it.





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