lol....Dear Friends!
I received an email from J.R. Waggoner yesterday and somehow it got deleted before I could respond to it...hmmm mysterious....
Anyway, I did a search for J. R. and it took me here, a place I hadn't visited since 2003. WOW!
It's great to read the comments that have been entered here in the last 7 years!
What a wonderful time we had!
J.R. if you see this please contact me again...the email address is below.
Best of All to All!
Rick Cooper (Creater of CFDM)
Rick Cooper
rcooper@kih.net
Liberty, KY USA - Tuesday July 13, 2010 at 16:01:14 (PDT)
Thank you so much for this site. I look forward to going through each and every issue. I have just got my coco3 back up and running. www.coco3.com is great for getting what you need. and of course EBAY..... Thanks again.
Jeff Christiana
dragon@in-tch.com
Kalispell, MT USA - Saturday June 26, 2010 at 12:12:54 (PDT)
What a pleasant surprise to see that the Coco still lives. Back in the '80s we had a thriving Coco user's group or 2 in Pittsburgh. Truly good old days-- no viruses, simple fun, Rainbow and Hot Coco, and above all the thrill of learning with a great group of helpful, friendly and dedicated guys and gals on a Sunday afternoon each month.
Cary Scarborough
cary09 (somewhere near) aol.com
Boston, MA - Tuesday May 11, 2010 at 20:40:14 (PDT)
Amazing!! After all these years, to see people still having, and in some cases still using their old Color computers. I'm CoCo User since 1983, I Love this 8 bit Computer, I'm 53 years old.
Ricardo Cardozo B,
megatronic@hotmail.com
Cali, Valle Colombia - Thursday March 18, 2010 at 07:23:20 (PDT)
I collect everything CoCo and have many - Great machine!
Samuel Reeves
mwmbiz@nemr.net
Queen City, MO. USA - Thursday January 28, 2010 at 17:36:41 (PST)
In 1983 there was a business called Commodore, this company made a number of machines. One of which is the Commodore 64 and 128. The computers are 8 bit computers.They later mad the Amiga 500, then the 1000, Amiga 600, Amiga 1200, Amiga 2000, Amiga 3000, Amiga 4000. These computers are similar to Macintosh because of the processor. The Amiga 1200 and 4000 had VIDEO TOASTER. This allows Video Input Output and Editing with the OUTPUT of composite, RGB (Red)(Green)(Blue). The year was 1987-1992 this was made. Why Did they Close down Commodore Computers. The COCO computer may have been made similar as the Commodore 64.
Vince
BTW: I am a retro guy so these COCO units that I will give for free is for anyone like me who appreciate 8-BIT SYSTEMS who will use them for nostalgia purposes and "NOT FOR CRAIGLIST or EBAY"
RizThomas
Hello All,
I have been given 3 boxes of COCO2-COCO3 units complete software, tapes,etc (no monitor but small accessories).
I must admit that I am not well versed with this system. Are there anyone interested close to this area. I'll give it free.
RizThomas
No wonder I haven't heard from all you CoCo fans out there. I listed the wrong email on the post below. I'd still like to hear from any of you who still remember me or my Rainbow column and my programs.
Bill Bernico
billbernico@yahoo.com
Cleveland, wi U.S.A. - Wednesday July 08, 2009 at 07:27:18 (PDT)
Jeff,
Thanks for keeping the CoCo alive and well! This evening I was thinking about Ultimaterm and did a Google search to see if was still out there. I was amazed to find an old review on it and it brought back many happy memories.
Ken Johnston
Ken Johnston
ken.johnston@techengine.ca
Calgary, AB Canada - Monday May 18, 2009 at 17:56:43 (PDT)
THANK YOU FOR HAVING THIS ARCHIEVE AFTER SHUTTING DOWN THE BUSINESS.... DAVE (GOT MY FIRST COCO IN 1983, A CREME COLORED 64 COCO1)
David Simpson
djthebear@hotmail.com
Mansfield, OH USA - Monday March 16, 2009 at 17:50:46 (PDT)
Does anyone have any pics or screengrabs of TALKHEAD?
paul yates
oniongod@gmail.com
, ct usa - Friday January 16, 2009 at 08:02:57 (PST)
I found Jeff's site from my "CoCo Computer Emulator CD "
Lemeia Chou Hong Kong. I guess it is aboutg time to start using the coco emulators. I was a subscriber.
John Chasteen
JohnChasteen.2@juno.com
Schaumburg, IL USA - Wednesday March 26, 2008 at 12:37:30 (PDT)
Boy was I surprised to see this URL. Man, it has been many years since I used the old Coco and audio tapes to play or save programs. Enjoyed Ricks magazine and Jeff's rework of the coco to make it useful on PC's with DOS.
Originally purchased 3 Coco 2's for the family to show them the direction things were going. Later got a Coco 3 and 5 1/4 Disks. Boy, that was something. Gave them all away. Now I miss them.
Thanks for the memories..................
John Pendleton
John Pendleton
jpendleton5@comcast.net
Independence, Mo USA - Thursday February 28, 2008 at 12:30:29 (PST)
I am the face behind talk-head
Karl Schmidt
karl@xtronics.com
, - Tuesday January 01, 2008 at 15:12:43 (PST)
As a reader of CFDM way back from the first issue, I was astounded to see all the copies are still available, I gave all my originals away yonks ago. It will be a pleasure to re-read some of Ricks's copies.
I recently got my PCDRAGON emulator (from Paul Burgin) to run happily in Windows XP - Does anyone know how to do the same for Jeff's Coco3X version?
An email would be appreciated.
Ray Smith
raymond.smith28@ntlworld.com
Poole, Dorset, UK - Thursday July 19, 2007 at 07:24:54 (PDT)
I just have to say that my years of dealing with The CoCo community were the most pleasureable of all my years dealing with computers. The Rainbow magazine made it a special experience for me. I'm still writing these days, but not for PC magazines. I write an online column at Cybermidi.com called "Practical MIDI" for budding MIDI sequencers. I've also written 9 books of fiction. I'd love to hear from any of you former CoCo enthusiasts.
Bill Bernico
wbernico@yahoo.com
Cleveland, WI USA - Sunday July 08, 2007 at 15:31:57 (PDT)
WOW!! CFDM is still around? Thanks to Mary Kramer I found you guys, I ran that COCO for many years, after talking to Mary I kinda wish I still had it, but hey I love PC too. Glad to know you guys are still around.
Mac
Dann "Mac" McConnell
d.mcconnell@usamedia.tv
Kellogg, ID USofA - Wednesday June 27, 2007 at 13:01:38 (PDT)
Man, I must be dreaming, My CoCo hasn't ran in years, shame on you microsoft!!!!
Farley Graves
Been away from the scene for long long years, but I've found my way back. Hello All. ;-)
Robert ''The R.A.T'' Allen Turner
sales@yourdvd.net
Pell City, AL U.S.A. - Saturday February 17, 2007 at 20:21:11 (PST)
Hello world!
What a great time it was when we did not have to worry about viruses and hackers and stupid emails selling viagra and dieting pills. I still have a use a coco and fortunately enough, my kids enjoy it too !
Thanks for your website
Ed
ED SZCZERBINSKI
DHAULAGIRI@HOTMAIL.COM
LEVIS, QUEBEC CANADA - Saturday February 10, 2007 at 13:31:37 (PST)
Was a dedicated coco years way back. Cut my teeth on the machine. Spent thousand of hours typing in programs and writing basic software. I hated to switch to a IBM system. Stumbled on to yahoo and was suprised at number of coco users still around. Still have pile of coco hardware packed away in the garage. Think I will dig it out and see if I can still revive it. Like my first sweetheart my coco is still special to me. Thanks for all the support.
Al Murra
bigal111@intergate.com
Corsicana, TX USA - Friday February 09, 2007 at 10:58:03 (PST)
Hey Rick and all CFs,
Found the archives during a Google driver search for a DMP-110 (go figure).
It's great to see the archives available to all.
Thankyou from a CoCo nut and CFDM Contributer/subscriber,
Chris
Chris Schedgick
csjunk@new.rr.com
Menasha, WI - Friday January 19, 2007 at 11:27:39 (PST)
Howdy! A long time ago (or at least it seems a long time ago) I was the retail manager for Delmar Co. in Middletown Delaware. Just hit upon your site while wandering the web looking up people and things from the past. Thanks for the opportunity to view your site.
James Igou
iggybeans@comcast.net
Bear, DE USA - Monday November 27, 2006 at 16:44:27 (PST)
Great Site! I still have a huge collection of CoCo stuff! Thanks for keeping the CFDM alive!
Glenn A Taylor
glennwyo@msn.com
Lusk, WY USA - Sunday November 19, 2006 at 15:23:05 (PST)
Great site - thanks for keeping the Coco alive and well!
Chuck
denis goudreau
I was amused at the serial printing with the dmp-130 printer, as I had 2 of these I used with parallel interfaces. They were GREAT! The quietest printers of this type I've ever used. Can't find any these days, so I have to use my old Citizen 5200's instead. Bummer. Enjoyed the site's info.
Mike P. Hamilton
mphamilton@bright.net
Stoutsville, OH - Sunday August 20, 2006 at 16:44:27 (PDT)
i like the site ccan u plz put in chr$ codes i need some for the game im makeing.....or i will in the future
aaron
, oh usa - Friday, November 04, 2005 at 10:44:14 (PST)
Great site! I have a question..... Do you remember the article in coco mag. about using a coco computer to control an armatron (a robotic arm toy sold by radio shack)?
Rob
Rob Noble
robn@illicom.net
, - Sunday, October 23, 2005 at 23:37:02 (PDT)
fine site
Nwannadi Nwaguy
nnadi@nwaguy.com
, USA - Monday, July 25, 2005 at 13:10:21 (PDT)
Hey there I Just thought I would say it is absolutely great you have this all archived on the web. I have been able to read some posts taht my dad wrote to cfdm to better get to know him. thanks again. by the way this has also inspired me to start up my own newsletter on Coco3.com. It is called CoCoNutz! Online Newsletter. Feel free to check it out. Thanks again for the archives and helping me get into a great group of people!
Mary
nuxie@aol.com
, - Friday, July 22, 2005 at 23:19:50 (PDT)
anyone out there, help me get into the coco clubs, how do you get into the clubs, and what are the requirements needed, and the costs to join up. and what clubs are the best ones. thanks
brian palmer
palmer.family@bigpond.net.au
broken hill, nsw australia - Monday, June 27, 2005 at 07:08:22 (PDT)
I work with different old pc,like WP-2 Tandy wordprocessor and a old INDY from Silicon graphics and now have I a Tandy 1000 ex but no monitor.And the software is missing.
I think i set the tandy up the tv monitor and he work well.
I like your side.There are friends that known a lot about that old pc and that make me happy.I come every year to the states for find old software for my pc.
my regards
gaston
gaston vonck
gavobe@yahoo.com
antwerp, Belgium - Sunday, May 08, 2005 at 23:36:59 (PDT)
Am working on an emulator for the Pocket PC
anyone care?
Joe
New York, NY USA - Wednesday, March 09, 2005 at 15:48:12 (PST)
Visiting this site is a great trip down memory lane. "Those were the days!" I just dug out my Coco and set it up today to look over some of the old programs. I recently installed a version of BASIC that runs on my PC, and I'm looking at revising some of my old programs. Kind regards to everyone.
Jumpin' Jim Bennett
jim@riverflow.com
Cincinnati, OH - Monday, January 17, 2005 at 16:22:34 (PST)
Good to see this page. I wrote a few programs for Rainbow on my upgraded 4k Coco and then on to the Coco II. Would sure like to be able to find the code on my old adventure games (Karrak, Sir Randolph of the Moors and Sir Randolf Returns)that were published in the Rainbow Mag. If anyone has these in a format that can be read on a PC such as a plain old asci text file please contact me.
Greg Clark
greg Clark
warpo@verizon.net
Syr, NY - Wednesday, January 12, 2005 at 06:17:15 (PST)
Hi All
Sean Russell
seanruss@netzero.net
Albuquerque, NM usa - Saturday, December 18, 2004 at 15:21:18 (PST)
I need a DOS driver for printer EPSON LX 1050 .
Thank you.
Viorel Nebunu
vioneb@yahoo.co.uk
Vaslui, Romania Romania - Thursday, December 16, 2004 at 07:50:18 (PST)
Hello everyone. I was just looking for anyone whom might have known my dad. he was a coconut and loved his computers. His name was Dale Kramer or aka Elad Remark on the cfdm. please contact me if you can tell me anything aobut my dad. he was killed in 1993 and I din't get to KNow him very well. Thanks alot guys and gals.
Mary Kramer
Mary Kramer
nuxie@aol.com
, in usa - Monday, September 20, 2004 at 11:30:41 (PDT)
I miss the days when my google turned up your site as match #1 -" An Honest Man !! "...
Now my google is swamped by my open source free programming work, but our CoCo's 2 & 3 are gently packed away with a TRS-80 model 1 for the day when my young ones want to take a peek at 'em - antiques and all!
Stefan Topolski
drred@megatrondata.com
shelburne falls, ma usa - Sunday, August 29, 2004 at 15:32:28 (PDT)
Really GREAT being able to re-read many of the articles, and recall the enjoyment of using the old CoCo. These Archives keep the little machine alive!
Thank you;
Arthur S Hallock (Creator of CFDM HARDCOPY)
Arthur S Hallock
ahallock@zianet.com
Deming, NM USofA - Sunday, August 22, 2004 at 11:33:48 (PDT)
hey i love all your magazines they are really impressive. it shows me how ms-dos is still "in". i especially love that USA map Program Art design that you guys did. i was wondering if for my History class you can e-mail me a notepad version or fille for that program it would be very useful.
David Acevedo
boricua4545@go..com
, - Wednesday, May 19, 2004 at 06:12:25 (PDT)
A really great Magazine - Enjoyed every one of them !!
Some really talented people & programs..
Thank you all who had a part in making it !!!!!
Terry Laraway
tkcoco@silverlink.net
Bremerton, WA USA - Wednesday, April 21, 2004 at 09:42:40 (PDT)
reminicing and looking for the coco ritty and wefax programs.Nice to have carpet estimator back.
roy wilson
aa5fs@aol.com
el reno, ok usa - Sunday, April 04, 2004 at 10:12:40 (PDT)
Hi Rick : Great page for CoCo memories. Keep up the CoCo'in.
Terry Dodson
ViZzWeB@hotmail.com
Palmetto, Ga USA - Saturday, December 27, 2003 at 18:44:28 (PST)
HI there - just looking around.
John GUin
johnguin@hotmail.com
everett, wa - Friday, December 19, 2003 at 13:13:05 (PST)
HI I USED TO LIVE ON LAKE ST IN HALIFAX I KNEW A PAUL OLEARY AT THE END OF THE STREET IS THAT YOU ??
BILL HEATH
SLAPSHOT572000@HOTMAIL.COM
, - Monday, December 15, 2003 at 13:38:05 (PST)
HI MY NAME IS BILL HEATH I USED TO LIVE ON LAKE STREET
BILL HEATH
SLAPSHOT572000@HOTMAIL.COM
ORLANDO, FL USA - Monday, December 15, 2003 at 13:36:34 (PST)
A wonderful trip down memory lane, to when computers differed and programming was an adventure. :)
Greg Miller
Sammamish, WA USA - Tuesday, December 09, 2003 at 20:31:14 (PST)
Hi,
I'm glad to see people are still interested in the coco.
I owned a coco3 setup in the eighties and was a president of the Atlanta Computer Society, Inc.. When Tandy dropped the coco I (and other club members) moved on to other systems, pc, mac, amiga, etc. I always missed the coco and have just bought a coco3 (bad keyboard know where I could pick one up?) and I love it.
Let me know how I can help to keep the coco alive.
Ernest
Ernest Crowe
ernest@keystoneproducts.com
waco, GA USA - Saturday, October 18, 2003 at 09:21:29 (PDT)
Hi - I am an old coco 1, coco 2 and coco 3 user from way back. I still have them and they still work. However, I have moved on to PC clones now due to the work I do. Good to see the coco still lives.
Jules Ambrosi
julamb@melbourne.vic.gov.au
Melbourne, Vic Australia - Monday, September 15, 2003 at 18:38:50 (PDT)
Memories...
John Guin
, - Monday, July 28, 2003 at 18:26:21 (PDT)
Hello All CoCo Friends,
This is my second entry in the guestbook. I believe I had the priviledge of being one of the first back when Jeff first placed CFDM at this site.
What prompted this entry was a call I made to one of my CFDM editors, Norm Barson, just this morning. I rarely hear from the 'Friends' anymore, but, as Norm and I agreed, 'It was a magical time when the Friends of CFDM were making the most of the last days of the CoCo3!'
My best regards go to all those who helped me do that years ago, and to all that visit this site ... and especially to Jeff Vavasour, creator of the CoCo 3 Emulator!
Rick Cooper
Liberty, KY
Rick Cooper
rcooper@kih.net
Liberty, KY USA - Sunday, July 13, 2003 at 08:12:40 (PDT)
Good to see this page. I wrote a few programs for Rainbow on my upgraded 4k Coco and then on to the Coco II. Would sure like to be able to find the code on my old adventure games (Karrak, Sir Randolph of the Moors and Sir Randolf Returns).
Greg Clark
warpo@dreamscape.com
, - Friday, July 11, 2003 at 17:10:00 (PDT)
looking through the back issues of cfdm brought back some pleasent memories. Thank you for your wirk in putting this on the web.
Roy Wilson
aa5fs@aol.com
El Reno, OK usa - Sunday, June 29, 2003 at 15:42:27 (PDT)
Amazing!! After all these years, to see people still having, and in some cases still using their old "friend" :)
I grew up with a Coco1, then switched for a Coco3. I learned to program on this computer. Today, I'm an analyst programer :)
I still remember the feeling I had when I saw my brother (older) coming back from Radio Shack, his arms full of boxes, landing them to me, saying "This is for you... have fun!" - The boxes contained a Coco 1, cassette deck and some books (Rainbow I think). Later, I got a DMP-105 printer, a disk drive, Coco Max, Scripsit & Assembler (from Tandy). Telewriter 64, and a bunch of other stuff, came later. That computer helped me graduate from College (doing my reports and analysis stuff on Telewriter).
Saddly, I never had that feeling again, with any other pieces of technology I bought or received. The Coco had this "magical touch" that nothing else never came close to catch.
Ray
Raymond Robillard
carbone@videotron.ca
Montreal, Qc Canada - Wednesday, June 25, 2003 at 10:06:54 (PDT)
Hi Jeff,
I was doing a search and came across this page.
I bought my first CoCo 1 (long back) back in 1982 it was a 16k ECB machine that was upgraded quickly to 64k , then came a 40 track DSDD floppy drive with ADOS, JDOS AND RSDOS switchable controller , I still have to this day the disk notcher that I used to make flippies.
I was a real CoCoNut and bought everything I could get my hands on, software, hardware and magazines.
In 1986 I started working for Tandy Australia in retail and moved shortly up to head office to work in Computer Support as their Coco expert.
The sad thing about all of this is that I sold off all my coco stuff in 1992 for $200.00 to make the move to PC's.
Now I am playing with Coco Emulators and having a ball all over again.
Cheers,
Barry.
Barry Tomkinson
dare2003@optusnet.com.au
Sydney, NSW Australia - Saturday, June 21, 2003 at 01:00:56 (PDT)
Wow, i cant beleive the old coco still lives.....I have a coco1 and coco3........
Jason Colls
collsyone@hotmail.com
Geelong, VIC AUSTRALIA - Thursday, June 12, 2003 at 03:46:45 (PDT)
I came across this coco stuff from a listing in "pcworld"
I have a coco3 w/512. It hought the coco was long gone.
I am very happy to see that it still going strong !!!
Ralph Thomas
white-elk@attbi.com
Grand Junction, CO USA - Thursday, February 20, 2003 at 11:34:15 (PST)
Looking for the best emulator I can find. BUT I've got the real thing to, along with os9, and loads of documentation.
Jim Dickenson
jvdknsn@cox.net
Portsmouth, VA USA - Monday, February 17, 2003 at 16:05:15 (PST)
If I only knew of CFDM's existence back when I exclusively used a CoCo. Sigh. It's great to see continuing support for our favorite Tandy product. What great memories: spending hours when I was a kid typing in games from Rainbow or Hot CoCo, learning multiplication thanks to the flash card programs my Dad wrote, writing reports with Telewriter 64 and getting into computer graphics thanks to CoCo Max 3.
Thanks for keeping the memory alive!
Dan Mahlendorf
experiment626@charter.net
Sheboygan, WI - Wednesday, February 05, 2003 at 07:48:01 (PST)
I still have a Color Computer 3. Doesn't get as much use as my pc, but I still play games on it. Great to see other people still use such a great classic computer.
Peter Beach
petebeach@covad.net
Dallas, TX USA - Sunday, November 17, 2002 at 06:57:23 (PST)
Long live the CoCo's! At my dads place in a Cupboars is my One Meg Coco 3, a 512k Coco 3, my Dual 20 Meg Hdd kit with OS9 Support plus a 3.5 inh floppy Drive, years and years of Rainbow Magazine on Floppy, CFDM disks by the truck load, and miles and miles of books. Have not tunred them on for ages. I used to love paying around with "Studio Works" the sound digitiser and "Rascan" the video digitiser by Nick Marentes. I did a ton of reviews for a few mags and user groups. I had the best time learning about computers with my CoCo's. They were so much fun to play and learn on , pitty i cant say the same about todays consoles.
LIVE ON COCO!!!
:-))
stinger30au@yahoo.com.au
Mount Isa, Qld Australia - Saturday, October 26, 2002 at 00:21:32 (PDT)
Original Coco user since 4K days glad to see people still using their machine. I'm in the process of using a couple of CoCo III's to run two E.D.M. machines.
Len
Len Fluhrer IIIrd
len.3@sympatico.ca
London, ON Canada - Tuesday, September 03, 2002 at 10:46:32 (PDT)
I used to subscribe to The Rainbow and CFDM back in the day. Good old days indeed. I have been trying to score an old CoCo 3 off of ebay for the last month to set up the old system for my daughter but I keep getting outbid! Eventually though. Hope everyone is well.
LONG LIVE THE COCO!
James McCarthy
ravenjimbo@adelphia.net
DuBois, PA USA - Monday, September 02, 2002 at 07:57:10 (PDT)
I got a coco2 in 1987. Learned to program on it. I recently downloaded Jeff Vavasour's emulator and played Dungeons of Daggorath. I defeated the wizard after after many months of on and off play. It was an experience. Do you have any more games in PAK form?
Gurbok Tibadwi
gurbok@hotmail.com
Brampton, Ontario Canada - Tuesday, August 20, 2002 at 16:15:51 (PDT)
One other thing, Steve Bjork, if you're out there, thanks for some of the greatest games of all time!
Terry Ritchie
terry@ritchie.com
Fremont, OH 43420 - Sunday, August 04, 2002 at 23:57:23 (PDT)
I dug my COCO out of the closet a few weeks ago. It hadn't seen the light of day for over 10 years! Just seeing my old friend again brought a grin from ear to ear. My son, who is now 13, stared at me strangely. I was on a mission; to hook my COCO up to the entertainment center and play a game of MegaBug ("We Gotchya!"). I disconnected the kids Gamecube (piece of crap 128bit processor) and proceeded to connect my superior 8bit machine in its place. I pushed in the power switch and there it was! MegaBug! Now wouldn't you know it. For the next few weeks the Gamecube has been sitting in the corner - hehe - I gave the kid the CoCo bug! But in the process, I got the bug back too! Man, those were the days. The early 80's, 16K of RAM, Extended Color Basic, program cassette tapes laying all over. Now I'm on another mission - I'm assembling a COCO3 with 512K RAM, a PRO-Tector board, SCSI interface, AT keyboard interface, any small SCSI hard drive I can scrounge up, a PAL upgrade chip for my multipak, a few disk drives and finally OS9. (I've got that wild look in my eyes again!) I wish I would have known about CFDM when it was still active.
Terry Ritchie
terry@ritchie.com
Fremont, OH 43420 - Sunday, August 04, 2002 at 23:42:22 (PDT)
Boy am I a dollar short, and a day late. I have about a years experience with these memory hungry speed demon monster personal computers, and wish I had not lost out on the COCO happenings the past 14 years. That long because I spent a few years overseas while in the service. I have two COCO3 computers with 5 1/4 floppy disk drives. cassette does not work. Interested in COCO emulator for RSDOS COCO3, and how to transfer text files from the COCO to the memory hog pc. I have a 300 baud modem , and a null modem.
Ralph Serpas
Ralphlsjr@hotmail.com
Dalzell, SC USA - Saturday, July 27, 2002 at 18:14:47 (PDT)
Jeff,
long time no see buddy! I was suprised and honored to see
this site come up in a random search. I caqn't wait to get
home and spend hours pouring over these old journals!
Frank D'Urso
Frank D'Urso
fdurso@attbi.com
hopkinton, ma USA - Thursday, July 18, 2002 at 17:39:07 (PDT)
i have a few CoCo's and lots of other stuff in a huge box here.. gee i might have to get it out and play with it .. or make my wife happy and sell it all.. hmmmm will have to think about that!
Ron Munro
munro5112@iprimus.com.au
Salisbury, SA Australia - Tuesday, June 11, 2002 at 17:30:17 (PDT)
I'm bummed that after giving away my Coco2 and 3 in the late 80's, and recently deciding to get back into it with a unit from ebay, that the community has really dwindled in the last couple of years. I kept meaning to do it for years, but have apparently been too late.
Anyway, I got a copy of OS-9 with my 128K Coco3, but can't get it to boot (using FD-501 with 2 drives in it). I can read these floppys through a Coco emulator on my PC, so I'm hoping that means they're not damaged.
My fondest memories are of puzzling out OS-9 and writing assembly language programs for it. I have no recollection of what I had to do to get it working. Any advice anyone could offer would be welcome.
I'm also looking to find a hard drive controller and drive.
Bill Skiba
wms@frontiernet.net
Rochester, NY USA - Saturday, May 25, 2002 at 15:08:05 (PDT)
It's great to see that the CoCo community is still alive and active. I attended the first Rick's CoCo Picnic in Liberty, KY in 1995, where I met several very important CoCo people. (Jeff V, Stuart WyG, Rick C) I'm the one that offered the embroidered CFDM cloth patches. Jeff nearly ran me over to buy one from me. It was great fun while it lasted. I still own 2 CoCo 3 w/512k, but I don't use them. :-(
Raymond Berney
ray12@zyworld.com
Yakima, WA USA - Monday, May 13, 2002 at 18:30:41 (PDT)
Wow, it's great to see there are still CoCo enthusiasts out there. I led the Kansas City CoCo Users Group (KC CoCo) for several years in the 80's. I do still have a lot of my CoCo equipment, books, and magazines, although they see little use these days. But just wanted to say hi to all out there who still enjoy what always will be a very special computer.
gcrawford@cubitdesigns.com
Olathe, KS USA - Wednesday, April 24, 2002 at 19:06:17 (PDT)
Happy to see so many CoCoists still active. If anyone has copy-protected software that they are afraid to use because they can't make back-ups, I may can help. I have software called "The Defeater" that will back up just about anything. Glenside Color Computer Club has a copy (Hopefully available somewhere on the web). But without the documentation it may be a little difficult to use. But, I will answer any questions that you may have.
Carl England
mrspock12@juno.com
Calhoun, GA USA - Sunday, April 14, 2002 at 13:31:19 (PDT)
Hi, I'm glad to see people still using and supporting the CoCo community! I grew up playing around and inputing programs from Rainbow magazine and other sources for the CoCo. I have a CoCo 2 64k and CoCo 3 w/512k and used OS/9 with a small 20MB harddrive. Recently I've been trying to get a controller for the HD as the Burke & Burke controller I had is no more. Hopefully I will find one. Keep up the good work.
Coyote
Weimar, TX USA - Friday, April 05, 2002 at 14:08:57 (PST)
I was looking for "Lyra" a program I used in my Coco I a long time ago, and I found this site. I still have all my Coco's I, II, III and some diferent programs I used. Maybe I open a museum some time. I was a suscriber to Rainbow Magazine until the end. Much of what I do today I learned using the Coco. So is still a good memory and a good machine it was. Thanks for the memory.
Arnaldo Siurano
siurano@coqui.net
Ponce, PR USA - Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 06:05:09 (PST)
Just moved and can't wait to hook the antique again. Wish I'd known about the CFDM when it was active.
Steve Wade
swade50@email.com
, - Saturday, March 02, 2002 at 11:20:47 (PST)
THANKS FOR KEEPING COCO ALIVE:
Over the years I've kept checking to see if any of us where
still out here. Getting a few less each year, but as with me
some of us are quiet, but still here. Thanks for keeping up
your website. I for one enjoy it.
I still have a complete set of Rainbows and bought out the Coco's we had at our hospital in our dept. a number of years back. I often wonder where Coco would be at if RS wouldn't have given up so soon. Some of the stuff I am force to do on
Microsoft crap in 2002 was done better and more open in the 80's. Where would we be......Yes I miss it, even miss the OS9. I am close to retirement age and plan on digging out my Coco's after retirement and
using modern tect. to advance with my Coco's. Resist change?
Hell no, just look at this as a way of advancing into the future.
THANKS FOR not giving up on our past and future.
Carl
Carl Shock
galen@frontiernet.net
Camden, Mi US of A - Friday, February 15, 2002 at 18:30:42 (PST)
Good to see the many excellent CoCo sites currently being run in the US/Canada. As I'm a Dragon User,(CoCo twin),I'm having a great time tracking down some of the CoCo software that is compatible that we never saw in England!
Cheers, Martin
Martin Waller
Martinthirty2@aol.com
St.Helens, England,Gt. Britain - Friday, February 08, 2002 at 20:50:56 (PST)
Cool archive. I shudder to think where I would be today if not for my CoCo. I probably would never have got into computers.
lost@l-w.net
Calgary, AB Canada - Saturday, January 26, 2002 at 09:01:19 (PST)
Old computers don't die, you just end up with fanatics.
Joe Gunther
Cocomoe@verizon.net
Reading, PA - Friday, January 25, 2002 at 12:57:04 (PST)
Hi there!
Great disk-magazine you had running! I recently rediscovered my CoCo and now intend to get the most out of this little critter. Wish I had done so ten years earlier.
I am probably one of the very few CoCo-nuts left in Europe...
Fedor Steeman
fsteeman@dds.nl Denmark - Tuesday, January 22, 2002 at 04:13:56 (PST)
Anyone out there know how to hook a CoCo monitor to a VCR? :-/ I think I've seen it done once...but I have no idea how.
Donica
mahoganey@novocon.net, NY - Sunday, January 20, 2002 at 12:50:09 (PST)
I found to search your CFDM from the Web tv current sent you. I hope coming to my tandy color computer 3 plus 516k still live about 16 years.
Richard Farrier
RichardFarrier@webtv.net
Pittsburgh, Pa 15218 - Friday, January 11, 2002 at 14:55:51 (PST)
I still have my coco 3 with 512k and monitor, 2 drives and alot of games etc. Still get it out once in a while a play a game or two. Juat wish I had a some spare space to set it up permanantly.
kevin gambill
kmgs10@aol.com, wv USA - Friday, November 16, 2001 at 18:12:08 (PST)
Could you guess your knowledge of computers, without the CoCo?
What other computer made you want to program so much?
That is only the CoCo. Maybe the C-64 had better games, and graphics (from the original CoCo), but how could you compare the power of the CoCo to the others, having the best 8 bit CPU, and a very good basic interpreter !!!
I'm proud to say that I owe my carrer to the CoCo.
Yair Carel
yair_carel@yahoo.com
kfar saba Israel - Wednesday, November 14, 2001 at 14:18:00 (PST)
Hi All! I'm so happy to see that my childhood years can be re-lived again. Yes, I too own a COCO.
Does Snoopy still exist? Anyone?
Started a Coco Club back mid 80's in Blaine, Minnesota.
I'm ready to play a few games!
Greg
Greg Buschmann
wedding@emailmn.com
Plymouth, MN USA - Thursday, November 08, 2001 at 21:50:16 (PST)
Great site. Even though I use ultra fast PC's with 100's of megabytes of memory in my daily job, I've recently spent all too much time (at work that is) browsing the net for COCO3 emulators, and COCo oriented web pages. I was glad to see such a nicely put together site , and surprized to see so many coco unthusiasts after all these years. Occasionally I still brag about the things my COCO3 with OS9 LII could do in the 1980's to people who own C64's and ZX81's. They will never undertsand how powerfull (and cool) the COCO was .
Tony Cappellini
cappy2112@yahoo.com
San Jose, CA USA - Saturday, September 29, 2001 at 15:59:30 (PDT)
Thanks for the comments and encouragement everyone! Tim, check out the new View Issues. It includes the publication dates now. Lou, you can now download the program side by clicking on the link below the cover graphic on each issue's individual page.
Vancouver, BC Canada - Wednesday, September 19, 2001 at 00:10:27 (PDT)
Excellent work! Wonderful reading!
Would it be possible to add the date published to each issue?
tlindner@ix.netcom.com
Martinez, CA USA - Wednesday, September 12, 2001 at 14:09:06 (PDT)
Thanks for putting up the CFDM web archive, a fitting closure to some great years. Thanks again!
Nixa, MO - Tuesday, September 11, 2001 at 03:21:51 (PDT)
I'm truely sorry that I didn't find out about these CoCodisk
Magazine until after it quit being published.
Richard E. Crislip
dickec@zdbetonebox.com
Norton, Ohio - Saturday, September 08, 2001 at 19:12:33 (PDT)
Long live the CoCo!
Jim Gerrie
jgerrie@uoguelph.ca
Guelph, ON Canada - Friday, September 07, 2001 at 13:18:55 (PDT)
Wow, it's great to see this stuff online! I still have to do that with my old CoCo stuff someday. Love to font on the main page!
alsplace@pobox.com
Des Moines, IA 50325 - Friday, September 07, 2001 at 09:35:57 (PDT)
Well, found another way to burn time at work! Good job! I was just beginning to generate some interest for my old Coco hardware again. It's a shame this publication had to stop, but certainly understandable. I for one would appreciate the disk contents being available online, but understand that something like that would be quite an undertaking.
Lou Wasnesky
lwasnesky@worldnet.att.net
Riva, MD USA - Thursday, September 06, 2001 at 06:06:29 (PDT)
Wonderful! Great to see this online and available to all. I'm thinking back now to all the work that was contributed to CFDM over the years. We had a wonderful time with it!!!
Rick Cooper
Creator of CFDM (and proud of it!!)
Rick Cooper
rcooper@kih.net
Liberty, KY USA - Thursday, September 06, 2001 at 05:16:36 (PDT)