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  • Radio Shack Color Computer

    From Bill Gordon@1:3634/22 to All on Sat Jan 6 08:01:42 2018
    Has anyone besides me got any interest in the Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer. Even though it was discontinued in 1986, there is still a large following of this little 8bit machine. There is software still being written, and hardware still being manufactured for this powerful little machine. No, it is no comparison to today's computers, but it is still amazing what it will do.

    I'd really love to hear from some 'Cocoists'.

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  • From Sean Dennis@1:18/200 to Bill Gordon on Sat Jan 6 19:04:08 2018
    Bill Gordon wrote to All <=-

    Has anyone besides me got any interest in the Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer.

    I love CoCos. My second computer was a CoCo2 that was later stolen. I
    follow a great CoCo group on Facebook that has some amazing people in it. They're building hardware and creating software that makes the entire CoCo
    line relevant even today.

    --Sean

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  • From Phantom Nomad@1:342/13 to Bill Gordon on Wed Jan 10 09:22:22 2018
    I never owned a CoCo but I did take a summer class at the local Tandy store
    for a week and learned to program on them. When I took the class I had
    already written many BASIC programs on my TRS-80 Model 1. I was 10 when I
    took that class and was by far the youngest in the class.

    Stephen

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