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What is this all about...
Isn’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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