ah yeah you are correct.

Here is what i remember about it though.

The kid would call it Trash 80 and it didn't make sense to me.

Because that COCO2 I had seemed like a good working, solid machine.

I remember, I was able to type in some basic programs from a magazine.

Run them, and then save em onto floppy. It was straight forward…

I do know that i liked it more then the c64.

but the gap between the C64 and the 286 was narrow, so my coco2 experience was short.

but the memory was fond!

The next thing I remember of computer importance was discovering SMARTDRV.EXE Woha!

I was in heaven! And that's the way it is. :-D


Or was it that it was pleasing to use, for these guys because it was familiar due to it being a derivative of the 6800

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_6800

And when these guys where in college getting their fancy degrees, They were around systems using the 6800 or the PDP-11 etc. ?