Learn Your Color Computer - Lesson 1 of 13
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- Learn Your Color Computer
Lesson 1 of 13
Host and Instructor: Christopher Mayeux
A.T.B. Productions copyright 1988-2015 (used with permission)
Production Date: October 19, 1988
Aired on Public Television in New Orleans, Louisiana
• How to connect and maintain your computer.
• Do's and Don'ts to keep it functional.
These lessons were inspired to help people use their Color Computer. Too many "closet computers" were out there so these were produced and aired on public television in 1988 and 1989 in the hope that more people would get then back out and learn to use their Color Computer.
Disclaimer: Mastered from old video tapes and should be expected to play as such. Quality is still good considering the age of the tapes.
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First computer I learned to program on. I couldn't wait for the next issue of Rainbow magazine to hit the stands. Great times. Wish I still had my coco.
oh yeah rainbow mag forgot that. I still have the white coco and 5/14 drive and the printer plotter if i remember right. must did it out the loft and have a play...
no idea where you got this video, or that any even existed, but I LOVE it! This was my first computer, I'm doing a series on it now on my channel, and this brings back great memories! Thanks!
This is the most cheesy 80's video I've seen. I love it!!! this is so cool. used to have a co co may years ago. no disk drive just cassette and printer. used it for many years too bad I can't give this more than 1 like. it needs 100 likes!!!!
History preserved....
Thanks for this series TJ :)
The intro manifesto is the best part of the whole 13 episodes.
Thanks for the memories. Do you think he could have used some of that cleaning solution on his TV monitor?
This is an awesome window to the past! I just started to sift through disk images and such I backed up from my old CoCo to my Windows PC using Jeff Vavasour(? I think) emulation software and transfer tools. I was able to remember how to use Telewriter 64 to read a chapter from a book my late father was writing.
Still love this machine-the first computer I ever used way back in 1981.
On video 5 in the series I left a comment on where to signup for the current CoCo email list. Also there is a Facebook group you can search for.
I watched this video last night and then dreamed I switched things on in the wrong order and it vapourised the CPU! I used to have a Dragon 32 so this series brings back lots of memories for me.
Jehannum2000 Glad you enjoyed it...it does bring back memories!!
This was legitimately helpful to me thanks
Pretty cool! I have this series on a VHS tape that I recorded off of Cox Cable back in the day.
I seem to recall that if you had a CCR-82 tape deck, you merely had to set the volume to the "P" setting (I also used a panasonic deck at one time and had the best luck with the volume set between 3 & 4). I was so happy when I finally got a floppy drive.
Beautiful preservation, thank you very much. Just as a curiosity, they noticed that first I try to wind the cent in the wrong hole and then I end up winding the tape in the cassette in reverse, turn the pencil clockwise (seen from above) 21:13.
Tapes advance counterclockwise
You can omit the .BAS in basic file names.
The extensions could be written as /BAS or .BAS.
Units are written at the beginning of the file name and their numbering starts at 0 for coco and 1 for dragon. 0: test.bas
Trailing quotes can generally be omitted
Awesome video!!! Man, were you rich? ALL THOSE ACCESSORIES I wanted back then. I was 14 when I got my Color Computer, then later got a Color Computer III with 128KB... It was awesome. I found a cassette player I made into my saving accessory, but wanted a disk drive so bad.
Then Dungeons of Daggorath came out and I slithered away from programming.
Awesome video! Thanks!!
This is amazing! Thanks for sharing!!
Fantastic, new sub
Thanks for sharing! Awesome :-)
I wonder how the COMPUTER PARENTS feel when all these computers finally come out of the closet ;p
I wonder what station this aired on in New Orleans? I was born and raised there and got my CoCo2 for Xmas 1984 and never heard or seen this before today!!!
I believe he told me “Public Access”.
@@tjseagrove there were 2 PBS stations then (and now) WYES12 and WLAE32 and several independent TV stations too
It certainly looks like a public access quality production.
Holy shit.. this setup certainly takes the MICRO out of MICROCOMPUTER... you just need a small setup like this to get going... AND A SMALL WAREHOUSE TO FIT IT ALL IN!!!
By the way this must be on beta cam because the video is very clear for a video of it's age..
That gray is looking green.
Anyone else every play the ASCII game called 'Castle' on the Tandy 1000? One of the first (and best) RPG's ever :)
The opening sounds like the Computer Chronicles music.
i'd love to hear once again the theme from the game "V The Final Battle" :)
That computer looks like it's on life support. We got a guy here that sales trs80,s for $50. They are way before my time, my first computer was windows 98...haha....
My mistake was realizing I needed a multipack interface until no one had one available. I recognize the DMP 105 printer.
Was that before or after the dinosaurs ?
i like how it doesnt ask you yes or no when you type dskini0
Cassettes tape 8track are the best today
Just imagine how much all that kit cost back in the day. The computer wasn't so bad, but the printer, disk drive, expansion bay, software, etc. Maybe that's why he couldn't afford to clean the monitor.
that was like $2000 worth of equipment
Oh yeah that old school plastic creaking sound
Gosh darn it he's right. This wimpy Android phone I've got is baby food. I'm going to stick IT in the closet. ;)
Was this on public access TV?
They were produced and paid for by the creator of the content. You could buy space on public access TV so they were put there at the creators expense.
You don't have to stick the switch to your TV.
why is it so important to put the floppy disk controller in slot 4 and the Rs232 in slot 1
The disk controller only works in slot 4. For some reason that's how it was designed.
You can still get CoCos from Ebay but also places like Cloud9 refurbished and upgraded.
www.cloud9tech.com
cocowares.com/
You can still rock a CoCo today. Granted finding and restoring CoCo's is getting harder but doable. Also if you have on in storage still you can get it fixed up.
20:00 "hWhite"
that guy would of never worked for radio shack with his beard and long hair
He would have worked for TANDY. Designing the stuff.
"If you dont have a multiport interface".... SERIOUSLY??!!! What have you been doing with your life??? GET ONE!!! NOW!!!
That beard looks awful on that Baby Boomer.