Anyone own a CoCo2?

[Krytol]

I grew up with one. I think it might be time to finally get one. I remember having a subscription to Rainbow magazine. I remember a company called Tom Mix software. I remember a program called CoCo Max. So many fuzzy memories....

[AtariLeaf]

Yep, Tom Mix made the best coco games. I used to have a lot of coco stuff until I sold it all a couple of years ago. Here's a good site on the Coco if you're interested.

 

http://zeppelin.tzo.cc/coco/coco.jhtml

[Hydian]

I had one of the original 4k ones. It ended up heavily modified (real keyboard, 64k piggybacked ram chips, etc.) It went to the Vets years ago when my dad was cleaning out his garage.

[jhd]

I bought an original Coco I back in 1983 ($500 Canadian, if memory serves), just after I sold my Atari 2600. It was "retired" to the attic when I got a PC in 1989.

 

I eventually managed to get copies of just about every cartridge for it -- most dumped to tape I never bought the disk drive -- cassette tape all the way!

 

When I went to High School, the computer lab there was outfitted with a lab full of Coco I and II systems. My first-ever paying job was when I was hired after graduation to come back and maintain the network.

 

Technical note: This was not a LAN per se, the Coco's were connected via the cassette port (and a multiplex stwich) to a central machine (Coco3?) that acted as a print server (and which was equipped with a disk drive). It operated at a blazing 1500 baud!!!

[+RangerG]

DinoWars and MegaBug kick butt!