6 Sep
2002
6 Sep
'02
1:41 p.m.
On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, tim lindner wrote:
But I'm talking about the Coco1 and Coco2. It's amazing that they gained
enough of a following to merit the CoCo3, which finally did some things
right.
On Fri, 6 Sep
2002, Roger Merchberger wrote:
Sellam's been dying to bring that up. Did you notice that "Control" key on
that CoCo 3 of yours? Define "real" -- Admittedly, the
CoCo1's chicklet keyboard sucked bigtime,
but The CoCo2/3's keyboard is as good as anything made nowadays... (that's
With one glaring exception: NO CONTROL KEY.
What computer comes without a CONTROL key? Anyway I think most CoCo 1-2 terminal emulators use
the Break key as a
control key. Not very slick, but it worked.
Eh.
What really sucked was the 32 column screen. I never
bought one of the many
80 column cards, they were all serial based. Only useful under OS-9.
I thought that went without mentioning :)
I'm curious, what experience have you had with
OS-9?
None (but I've heard enough good things about it to trust that it was way
cool :)
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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