[Coco] BASIC and Disk BASIC version numbers

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 13 December 2003 07:22, Robert Gault wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Friday 12 December 2003 21:29, John E. Malmberg wrote:
>>>Bruce Calkins wrote:
>>>>The problem these controllers had with OS-9 is in the controller
>>>>chips
>>>>
>>>>inability to cope with 1.78 MHZ operation.
>>>
>>>This is the first that I have heard about a 1.78 Mhz limitation
>>> for the first generation disk controller.
>>
>> Ditto John.  I've got one that works just fine.  But I don't use
>> it because I've also got a no-halt.
>
>I've heard of this timing limitation with some controller boards. It
> was a cap on the board that corrupted a square wave. Changing the
> value corrected the problem. So it was not the controller perse but
> the board design at fault.

Does anyone recall which cap that was?

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