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Jim wrote:

> Well, I'll try posting one more time.  I'm curious to see how many of
> the old timers are still on this list.

While the spam problem really got OUT of hand a few months ago (has it been 
a couple years already?), I kept checking this newsgroup from Google News 
and just discarded the tons of bogus messages... so I never left this place 
at all. I am an active suscriber to the Maltedmedia list, the Yahoo! groups, 
the Delphi CoCo SIG and the Vintage Computing Forum in what is still called 
Compuserve. All the places where the CoCo was discussed on are welcome from 
this side of the keyboard <g>.

The Delphi CoCo SIG is almost deserted, there's an ocassional post every two 
months or so, but the messages in storage in there dating as far back as 
1985. Sadly, Delphi Forums has a monthly charge to "upgrade" the free 
account in order to be able to search messages from the begining og time... 
but if you punch in a msg number (like 175) in the Advanced Search screen 
you can get something like:

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 From:  Guest  10/25/1985 2:32 am
      To:  ALL   (1 of 1)
 175.1
  WELCOME TO OUR NEW SIG. WE ARE PLEASED TO HAVE YOU. A WORD ON THE MENUS 
AND PROMPTS.
 WHEN YOU FIRST COME ONE HERE, YOU ARE IN A HIGHLY-INTENSIVE MENU MODE. YOU 
MIGHT SAY, WE ARE SPOONFEEDING TO HELP YOU GET STARTED.
  BUT, ONCE THE MENUS BECOME ANNOYING, YOU CAN TURN THEM OFF. INITIALLY, YOU 
ARE IN THE FULL MENU, (PROMPT MODE THREE). AFTER A BIT OF PRACTICE, TRY THE 
/P COMMAND TO CHANGE TO PROMPT MO DE 2. TYPE THIS: /P 2 BEFORE LONG, EVEN 
THAT ABBREVIATED MODE CAN BE SHORTENED BY USING /P 1 WHEN YOU COME ON.
 ONCE YOU ARE COMFORTABLE, GO TO THE MAIN PROMPT OUTSIDE THIS SIG AND SET 
YOUR PROMPT MODE PERMANENTLY TO YOUR CHOICE.
 ALSO, EVEN THE SLASH COMMANDS IN CONFERENCE CAN BE SHORTENED. FOR INSTANCE 
WHILE /TIME WILL GIVE THE TIME, SO WILL /T
 SO, ONCE YOU LEARN THE BASICS, YOU CAN WHIZ THROUGH HERE.
 YOU WILL FIND THIS TO BE VERY USER-FRIENDLY. JUST AS BASIC IS A HIGH-LEVEL 
LANGUAGE, THIS IS A HIGH-LEVEL SIG: EASY FOR HUMANS TO UNDERSTAND.
 --JIM REED

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This is the real value of Delphi... the archive.

Compuserve, on the other hand, actualy did more to stomp all over the 
orphaned vintage computer forums. The old CoCo and OS9 forums (along with 
the Tandy forum) were mangled into the Vintage Computing Forum some time 
ago, many, many files in those forums were lost - seemingly forever, and the 
msgs archive seems to be gone also... heck!, the CoCo does not even have a 
dedicated "slot" in the new VC Forum, everything's spread around in the 
'Orphaned Computers', 'Other Operating Systems', etc. But, it still provides 
for a gathering place for vintage technology fans.

My $0.02 worth... I'll keep the door open on all and whatever venue becomes 
available for the CoCo :-)


-=[ Rogelio ]=-