[Coco] Nick's Survey results

[KnudsenMJ at aol.com]

In a message dated 12/9/03 10:10:30 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
jdaggett at gate.net writes:

> I can upgrade to the 1987 GIME chip if I want to. In fact I still have it 
up 
> and use it 
>  once in a while. I used it to write many reports while working on my 
degree 
> in the  late 80's. 

There's no need to upgrade your GIME if your system is stable and the 
sparklies aren't too "snowy."   At least you won't have to change one byte of 
software if you do upgrade it.

My wife used a Coco3 with Dynastar and Dynaform and a big daisy-cutter 
printer for professional reports and letters until the early '90s.  Then she went to 
a Mac.

I still run stock OS-9 L2 on my real Coco3, with Kev Darling's GrdDrv upgrade 
and some TuneUp patches from Boisy.  I may go to the trouble of downloading 
Nitros-6809 and rebuilding the boot file, but as little as I use my Coco 
nowadays, it isn't worth it except to say I did :-)  --Mike K.