@ben I was a Tandy CoCo kid, and thought the Amiga was the coolest thing ever! I never had one, sadly, but watched from the sidelines at its incredible capabilities.
@AncTreat5358 Yeah I always heard people saying good about the CoCo but never really got to use one. I was intrigued by the 6809.
I had used (and enjoyed) a TRS-80 Model III, and later I worked at a Radio Shack Computer center for a couple of months (during which I sold a Tandy 4000 Xenix system for a nice commission), but I was mostly a Commodore kid.
But the Amiga was, up until about 1998, the machine I was really after.
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@AncTreat5358 Then at that point I became a Mac user.
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@ben I had a CoCo 2 and then upgraded to a CoCo 3. I learned assembly language on the 6809E, and also learned to program the speech synthesizer cartridge (which was really cool, learning how to leverage phonemes!).
That's really neat you worked at a Radio Shack. That was my major hangout place as a kid.
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@ben Cool. After the CoCo's, I transferred to the "dark side" (IBM compatibles) and made my career in them. Only when that ended did I flip to the Apple ecosystem, and haven't been happier from a technology perspective.