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From: belmonte@svax.cs.cornell.edu (Matthew Belmonte)
Newsgroups: net.micro.6809
Subject: Re: Coco-III sighted and captured!
Message-ID: <593@svax.cs.cornell.edu>
Date: Mon, 13-Oct-86 00:26:45 EDT
Article-I.D.: svax.593
Posted: Mon Oct 13 00:26:45 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 13-Oct-86 06:14:32 EDT
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Summary: DEAD?

In article <1143@ihwpt.UUCP>, knudsen@ihwpt.UUCP (mike knudsen) writes:
> Has anyone else seen one of these beasts?  Is this net group
> still alive??	Has everyone died and gone to Delphi?  --mike k
Yes, this newsgroup is still alive, marginally.
...but let's face it -- things around here have lost vitality.  do you know
where everyone is?  well, i'll tell you.  they've all gone to net.micro.amiga,
& they're posting like mad.  I used to read net.micro.amiga in hopes that
someday i'd have one and have something to talk about.  yes, i''d have one of
those wonderful, CONTEMPORARY beasts and i could just leave this old CoCo hanging
off the side on some rs232 port as an antique conversation piece.
but do know why i'm still here?  i have no money, that's why.
let's face it - you can only change the CoCo so much.  it's still old.
it's going the way  of the apple  -- even the postfixes show it:
CoCo, CoCo 2, CoCo 3 ... Apple, Apple 2, Apple 2+, Apple 2x, Apple 3.
See the similarity?  I know someone who has a gigantic collection of old
Apple _n_'s (where _n_ is large).  he never does anything w/ them anymore,
except for when a friend of ours used to come to visit & play "Rescue
Raiders."  I've resolved that I'm going to stick around here & use the
university's machines & money & leave my old CoCo running a terminal
emulator.  no, why would people go to delphi from here?  delphi costs
MONEY, see?
-- 
"Logic dictated that logic did not apply."
	-- Spock, "The Galileo Seven"
Matthew Belmonte
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