RE: Memory lane
August 26, 2023 at 9:55 pm
(This post was last modified: August 26, 2023 at 10:00 pm by Astreja.)
I had one of these:
![[Image: tandy_coco2.jpg]](https://oldcomputermuseum.com/tandy-coco2/tandy_coco2.jpg)
Hooked up to a wide-carriage DECwriter printer/terminal through the serial port on the CoCo, a third-party floppy disk controller and a bare 5¼" floppy drive enabled by some misappropriated Extended Color BASIC. (Imagine, if you will, half a dozen twenty-something computer and/or D&D nerds assembled in Mom's garage, cackling maniacally over an EPROM burner...)
It was almost anticlimactic when one of the aforementioned nerds and I had to cobble together a rig with a CoCo and an Atari ST running an IBM emulator to get my word processing documents off the CoCo disks after my enterprising then-infant daughter decided the floppy drive would be a good place to store one of her toys, thereby scratching the hell out of my word processing software disk.
IIRC, without the word processor we had to transmit the documents to the Atari via a terminal program.
Hooked up to a wide-carriage DECwriter printer/terminal through the serial port on the CoCo, a third-party floppy disk controller and a bare 5¼" floppy drive enabled by some misappropriated Extended Color BASIC. (Imagine, if you will, half a dozen twenty-something computer and/or D&D nerds assembled in Mom's garage, cackling maniacally over an EPROM burner...)
It was almost anticlimactic when one of the aforementioned nerds and I had to cobble together a rig with a CoCo and an Atari ST running an IBM emulator to get my word processing documents off the CoCo disks after my enterprising then-infant daughter decided the floppy drive would be a good place to store one of her toys, thereby scratching the hell out of my word processing software disk.
IIRC, without the word processor we had to transmit the documents to the Atari via a terminal program.
