how hard is it to go to ubuntu and wine?

[MrNovi]

SP, I have one of those old TRS-80 CoCo's in the back room and it still ran the last time I checked it (that was a few years ago though). I have a regular museum of old computers and software.

[Spankin Partier]

Is yours a generation 1 or 2? Ours was a generation 1 (grey case, slightly larger then the gen 2, and a really crappy keyboard). Ours still worked last time I turned it on too. I loved that thing.

I was even able to get it to send data to my old IBM PC (which no longer boots from the floppies ).

When it came to graphics, back in the day, it did circles around then popular Com-64s.

I guess it was because of my experience with this computer, and how open all the hardware/software was that got me excited about Linux. Buy a book and you've got a dozen programs you can type in. Buy a piece of hardware and you get huge programming manuals. When was the last time you seen a programming manual shipped with a printer?

[MrNovi]

I did some digging around and it isn't a CoCo. What I have is a TRS-80 Model 1, a TRS-80 Model 3, a TRS-80 Model 4, a Tandy 1000HX, and a Tandy TRS-80 Model 2000 (one of the few computers to use the Intel 80186 cpu, the first Radio Shack computer to carry the Tandy Logo, and the only one to have both the Tandy and the TRS-80 Logos). I have a lot of the software and manuals for most of them.

End of History lesson.

[RJ_Hythloday]

on the ot, I just wanted to mention that I installed ff2.exe in wine to get abc.com's flash player working. No problem.

I remember programming on my first pc. green screen , had a car made out of * moving across it, dang cool