Yet another CoCo & MC-10 site

Dedicated to the Tandy/Radio Shack MC-10 Micro Color Computer and the Color Computers 1, 2 & 3

What is this all about...

coco102Isn’t his picture on the left just a glaring call to ELEGANCE?. Many stray souls mock vintage computer technology, why if today we swim in a sea full of gigabytes (soon terabytes), megahertz of CPU cycles stacked one atop another and a seemingly endless glut of overpriced and worst of all: bloated software. Do you really need that hyper-threaded engine to write up a simple letter or even manage your e-mail?. Today’s technology is cool, there’s some evolution to account for, but to me it seems all the developments: more speed, more power, more storage and more memory are just evidence of an interesting brute force approach to solve a very basic (pun intended) problem. The CoCo was a better solution almost 30 years ago, clean, uncluttered and considering the technology available at the time it was being developed, a miracle.

I still use my CoCo, I have both a CoCo 3 and an original F Board CoCo 1 setup on my desk at the ‘computer’ room. Still a joy to fire it up and be greeted by the plasma-green screen... moreso, if the feeling is on the adventurous edge, when in goes the OS9 L2 boot disk and I fire away typing up DOS...


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Actually, this was first edited using the HTML editor found in Netscape Gold (remember this one?), back then the page resided in the Delphi personal web space. When that died, the page was moved to Tripod and maintained with (oh sacrilege!) MS Frontpage. I got wise, moved out of Tripod and now use NetObjects Fusion...

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