[Coco] Introducing myself

Terry Steege tsteege at gmail.com
Mon Oct 19 18:05:56 EDT 2020


Welcome Martin!

On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 3:38 PM Martin Heermance <mheermance at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> My name is Martin Heermance and I'll introduce myself. I was in high school
> during the eight bit era, While I owned an Atari, I had a friend who had a
> CoCo Model 1. When I saw OS-9 I was impressed by the CoCo, but at the time
> floppy drives were insanely expensive, so it was out of my league.
>
> Fifteen years ago I bought a TI-99 and CoCo 2 to show my kids what
> computers were like. It turned out to be a great idea because
> plugging cartridges into a system was so intuitive. So they enjoyed some of
> the old eight bit games.
>
> I've continued to play with them since then, including getting a coco SDC
> and installing NitrOS-9.
>
> Martin
>
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