Re: Color Computer users
  By: Bob Ackley to William Schaub on Fri May 14 2010 06:27 am

 > Replying to a message of William Schaub to papabill:

 >

 >  WS>   Re: Color Computer users

 >  WS>   By: papabill to All on Wed Oct 14 2009 08:12 am

 >

 >  >> Are there any "Coco" users out there?

 >

 >  WS> My very first computer ever was a coco my parents got it for

 >  WS> me and my sister in 1985.

 >

 > My first was a kit.  A Heathkit H-89 that I built in 1978.

 >

I wasn't even born in 1978, That was about two years before  I was born.

I wish I had been able to build a heathkit and understand the hardware better

in the process. I also wish I had had a chance to learn assembler back then

as well as a better language than BASIC.  I didn't really get into programming

outside of tinkering in microsoft extended basic on the coco and qbasic on DOS

until I ditched DOS for FreeBSD. I really wish DOS had come with development

tools like BSD did.



 >  WS> I still have the original color computer 2 today and it

 >  WS> still works like new.

 >

 > That Heathkit did until the ROM chip failed, now it isn't smart

 > enough to boot up.

 >

 > My NorthStar Horizon is hard wired to boot from floppy disk 0,

 > track 0, side 0, sector 0.  It will try to load and run whatever

 > it finds there.  If there's no floppy disk in the drive it just sits

 > there, no error message, no nothing.

 >



  I hope my coco continues to last I don't do much with it anymore but it is

somewhat comforting to be able to power it up now and then and see it run.



I might finally get around to learning 6809 asembly on it some day if I can

stop putting it off.

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