CoCo Fest 2023

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I nearly missed it this year due to scheduling, but managed to get down to CoCo Fest earlier today. Below are some pictures and a slideshow I yammer away over. More to follow!

 

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A few pictures overall:

This wedding party from another part of the facility got swept up by CoCo Fest too!

 

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Some more photos:

 

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Someone turned a TRS-80 MC-10 into a laptop!

 

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It appears that someone somehow stuffed a CoCo into this old PC case.

 

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Speaking of CoCo's in PC cases, the machine on the right is another CoCo in a PC tower. The thing in the middle is a NABU.

 

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Internet browsing on the CoCo, an impressive feat!

 

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Brazilian CoCo clones:

 

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Portable CoCo's powered by lithium ion batteries from power tools.

 

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"New" CoCo machines based on the Raspberry Pi:

 

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Finally, have a look at this- a "conversion" kit for the Color Computer MC-10. The one we have in the fleet has a bad keyboard, no joystick capabilities, and rather poor prospects to ever be used for much of anything. Until now! These fine folks have cooked up a device called the Pi-Key 10, which adds an expansion board inside the MC-10 itself that adds joystick and external keyboard support. It even supports Genesis controllers.

The finished product is designed to stand upright like a tower.

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Of course, I couldn't pass something like that up.

More to follow on this one!

 

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Super cool mod! I will have to see if I can make it to next year's show!

 

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"New" CoCo machines based on the Raspberry Pi:

Stooges!