Behold, in all its VHS glory:

This screen grab came from the intro to a video project I worked on with a high school friend that year. I had only captured the intro titles, and not the rest of the content, but a few frames of me doing an intro were at the end of it.

I was living in Pineland, Texas at the time (population 1111 if I recall). While I had been active on the BBSes in Houston before moving to East Texas at the end of 1984, there were no BBSes in the small towns I lived at during my East Texas high school years. Thus, no modem. Just a CoCo, a TV set, and floppy disk drive. I am not sure what else I had for my CoCo back then other than joysticks and some software.

The wooden desk was a kit I put together in late 1984. That desk made the move to Iowa with me in 1995 and went into storage temporarily while I was looking for a place to live. I remember hauling it from storage to my new apartment, and trying to drag it down the sidewalk towards the building. It feel apart. So, while it made it with me to Iowa, it never made it to the new computer room.

I also see Mickey Mouse ears on my TV, and now I want to find those. I recall buying some as a 20-something “adult” visiting the parks during work trips to California, but did not recall having some when I was in high school. Neat.

More fascinating posts like this to come… You have been warned.