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2025-12-29: I have restored the wiki to a backup from the end of November. Starting in September 2025, accesses went form the 800MB-1.2GB range per month to 26GB in September, 42GB in October, and 70GB in November with most accesses originating from China. As soon as I realized what was causing all the access problems in November, I shut it down (it had reached 36GB by then) behind a password/login screen. The database had gotten corrupted, and I tried a restore from just before the spike in access but that didn't work. Thus, end of November. I still have the other daily backups so if there were any important additions in December, let me know and maybe they can be recovered. - Allen H.
Bob Rosen
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Bob Rosen was the owner of Spectrum Projects, a company based in Woodhaven, New York which sold many products for the Color Computer. Bob was formerly a salesman and store manager for Radio Shack. Spectrum ran ads in all the major Coco magazines until Feburary 1988. After folding Spectrum Projects in 1988, Bob Rosen went on to run a Sports Card and Memorabilia business called Spectrum Sports.
Original products included a Light Pen, the Spectrum Remote Reset, Spectrum DOS, the Spectrum Voice Pak, and more...
Bob Rosen was Sysop of the 4 Rainbow BBS systems which ran on TRS-80 Model III computers using TBBS software. BBS#5 goes on-line in Saan Jose, California in August 1984. The 4 lines in Woodhaven, NY stopped operation in March of 1985.
Bob Rosen wrote several columns for Rainbow Magazines[1] "Hint" column.
Articles
- Title video tapes with CoCo (Rainbow Magazine[2], October 1982, pg 128.)
- Inside TDP (Rainbow Magazine[3], February 1983, pg 154.)
- This will program your keys on Professional Keyboard (Rainbow Magazine[4], June 1983, pg 80.)
- The Dragon is coming (Rainbow Magazine[5], September 1983, pg 113.)
- Communicating with your Color Computer (Rainbow Magazine[6], November 1983, pg 192.)
- My CoCo is not IBM compatible (Rainbow Magazine[7], October 1984, pg 238.)