Coco Fest 2023 TRS-80 Color Computer Festival

[@Gravel-Cult]

Nice to see people keeping this tech alive. I still have my Color Computer from back in the day also.

[@kagreen2k]

This is very cool. I had. TDP100 CoCo clone as my first computer back in 1984. I live in Chicago so I may try to attend.

[@bhosken]

Wow it amazes me when I stumble upon things like this. My one CoCo is still hooked up in our gameroom. Wish I had known there was still such interest as I pitched about a hundred Rainbow magazines when I moved after keeping them all these years. My original gray CoCo certainly also inspired my passion for computers and is why I am still in the software industry. I learned so much piggybacking memory chips on the original gray CoCo to double ram and ordering bare Tandem 5.25 drives and then building a power supply and case for a double stacked drive. In fact I now realize this is why I still prefer any technology that is not locked down. Really neat tour of everything and perhaps someday I will make it to a CoCo fest.

[@AngelusNielson]

I haven't touched a CoCo since they were modern computers. It blows my mind that there are people that are that connected to them.

[@matt.604]

Brings back memories of spending my childhood in front of a coco 2 and 3. Especially seeing that games book from Canada.. I must have typed out every one of the games.

[@MrWaalkman]

I like how the LA is being used to keep an eye on what the COCO 3 is up to @0:57. And more info on what is going on there? And thanks for the report, sounds like you had fun. :)

[@computerhobbyists3070]

Definitely a good time!

[@DavidStahlOLDHAPPyMACs]

Thank’s for the tour looks like fun

[@computerhobbyists3070]

Sure thing!

[@RetroTechChris]

Thanks for the tour!

[@computerhobbyists3070]

You're welcome!

[@joelavcoco]

The CP-400 is a Brazilian CoCo clone. And the wood-grain mini-tower case looks like it's a CoCo repack. It was all the rage in the early '90s to pack your CoCo motherboard, floppy and hard disk controllers, possibly a Multi-Pak interface, and all your drives and cabling in a PC case and run it all off an AT power supply.

[@computerhobbyists3070]

Thanks!

[@jecelassumpcaojr890]

While the CP-400 is a CoCo on the inside, the case was copied from one of the Timex machines (such as the one seen in 7:15). The original CP-400 had the same nasty keyboard but the CP-400 II got a reasonable one. A side effect of the Timex design was that the CoCo cartridges couldn't be physically inserted into the CP-400 even though they were electrically compatible.

[@JamiesHackShack]

Thanks for sharing!

[@computerhobbyists3070]

My pleasure!

[@AmigosRetroGaming]

Your awesome thumbnail brought me here. How often do you capture the majesty of a handsome genius like Amigo Aaron? Obviously, you know how to bring in the viewers, my friend.

[@BaarBear]

Rainbow's Lonnie Falk would have been pleased!

[@BenevolentChum]

1:38 MC-10 goodness. Greg Dionne's Pac Man Clone, the killer app for the MC-10...

[@jamesross3939]

Good job filming that ... even though you're on the move you still focus on stuff and minimal shaking.

[@wisconsincomputerclub4668]

It was a great show! Glad the turnout has been good despite the strange weather.

[@computerhobbyists3070]

I agree. There seemed to be 5x as many people there than in 2021. I'm glad the public's interest in retro computing seems to be increasing.

[@EricWinchester0]

can't belive you didnt mention bedlam when you panned by it

[@BaarBear]

I wonder how many of the CoCo gang from back in the day (Steve Bjork, Art Flexer, Tom Mix, Joseph Kolar, Dave Dies, Fred Scerbo, etc) have attended this.

[@computerhobbyists3070]

I've heard a rumor that Steve Bjork has attended.

[@MrJamie6031]

P51. Awesome game.

[@SwedishMeattball]

when the pc was personal there was something different about being alone in a dark den playing games on this i miss the secretness of gaming then now everybody games

[@kb3iwr]

wo, wo, woo