Brings back memories of spending my childhood in front of a coco 2 and 3. Especially seeing that games book from Canada.. I must have typed out every one of the games.
I like how the LA is being used to keep an eye on what the COCO 3 is up to @0:57. And more info on what is going on there? And thanks for the report, sounds like you had fun. :)
Wow it amazes me when I stumble upon things like this. My one CoCo is still hooked up in our gameroom. Wish I had known there was still such interest as I pitched about a hundred Rainbow magazines when I moved after keeping them all these years. My original gray CoCo certainly also inspired my passion for computers and is why I am still in the software industry. I learned so much piggybacking memory chips on the original gray CoCo to double ram and ordering bare Tandem 5.25 drives and then building a power supply and case for a double stacked drive. In fact I now realize this is why I still prefer any technology that is not locked down. Really neat tour of everything and perhaps someday I will make it to a CoCo fest.
The CP-400 is a Brazilian CoCo clone. And the wood-grain mini-tower case looks like it's a CoCo repack. It was all the rage in the early '90s to pack your CoCo motherboard, floppy and hard disk controllers, possibly a Multi-Pak interface, and all your drives and cabling in a PC case and run it all off an AT power supply.
While the CP-400 is a CoCo on the inside, the case was copied from one of the Timex machines (such as the one seen in 7:15). The original CP-400 had the same nasty keyboard but the CP-400 II got a reasonable one. A side effect of the Timex design was that the CoCo cartridges couldn't be physically inserted into the CP-400 even though they were electrically compatible.
when the pc was personal there was something different about being alone in a dark den playing games on this i miss the secretness of gaming then now everybody games
I wonder how many of the CoCo gang from back in the day (Steve Bjork, Art Flexer, Tom Mix, Joseph Kolar, Dave Dies, Fred Scerbo, etc) have attended this.
This is very cool. I had. TDP100 CoCo clone as my first computer back in 1984. I live in Chicago so I may try to attend.
Brings back memories of spending my childhood in front of a coco 2 and 3.
Especially seeing that games book from Canada.. I must have typed out every one of the games.
Nice to see people keeping this tech alive. I still have my Color Computer from back in the day also.
Thank’s for the tour looks like fun
Sure thing!
Good job filming that ... even though you're on the move you still focus on stuff and minimal shaking.
Rainbow's Lonnie Falk would have been pleased!
1:38 MC-10 goodness. Greg Dionne's Pac Man Clone, the killer app for the MC-10...
I like how the LA is being used to keep an eye on what the COCO 3 is up to @0:57. And more info on what is going on there? And thanks for the report, sounds like you had fun. :)
Definitely a good time!
Wow it amazes me when I stumble upon things like this. My one CoCo is still hooked up in our gameroom. Wish I had known there was still such interest as I pitched about a hundred Rainbow magazines when I moved after keeping them all these years. My original gray CoCo certainly also inspired my passion for computers and is why I am still in the software industry. I learned so much piggybacking memory chips on the original gray CoCo to double ram and ordering bare Tandem 5.25 drives and then building a power supply and case for a double stacked drive.
In fact I now realize this is why I still prefer any technology that is not locked down.
Really neat tour of everything and perhaps someday I will make it to a CoCo fest.
I haven't touched a CoCo since they were modern computers. It blows my mind that there are people that are that connected to them.
The CP-400 is a Brazilian CoCo clone. And the wood-grain mini-tower case looks like it's a CoCo repack. It was all the rage in the early '90s to pack your CoCo motherboard, floppy and hard disk controllers, possibly a Multi-Pak interface, and all your drives and cabling in a PC case and run it all off an AT power supply.
Thanks!
While the CP-400 is a CoCo on the inside, the case was copied from one of the Timex machines (such as the one seen in 7:15). The original CP-400 had the same nasty keyboard but the CP-400 II got a reasonable one. A side effect of the Timex design was that the CoCo cartridges couldn't be physically inserted into the CP-400 even though they were electrically compatible.
P51. Awesome game.
Thanks for the tour!
You're welcome!
when the pc was personal there was something different about being alone in a dark den playing games on this i miss the secretness of gaming then now everybody games
I wonder how many of the CoCo gang from back in the day (Steve Bjork, Art Flexer, Tom Mix, Joseph Kolar, Dave Dies, Fred Scerbo, etc) have attended this.
I've heard a rumor that Steve Bjork has attended.
Thanks for sharing!
My pleasure!
It was a great show! Glad the turnout has been good despite the strange weather.
I agree. There seemed to be 5x as many people there than in 2021. I'm glad the public's interest in retro computing seems to be increasing.
wo, wo, woo