[Coco] OS-9 Editor and NitrOS-9 Download

David Hazelton davehazelton at access-4-free.com
Thu Dec 18 09:45:10 EST 2003


John E. Malmberg wrote:
> Neil Morrison wrote:
> 
>> Did you email fug at ipblythe.com ?? I wonder if this has been
>> abandoned. I assume the stuff on RTSI is not what you need.
> 
> 
> No, I have not e-mailed fug.  I probably should.
> 
> I have the Cloud-9 CD-ROM of the RTSI archive, but I am still working on 
> it.
> 
> I have not had time to do much than answer e-mail recently.  I am 
> currently on the hardware side trying to trouble shoot a second floppy 
> subsystem.  So far I have been hit with a 3.5 inch drive that appears 
> functional but out of allignment.  And a problem where the track 0 on 
> the 5.25 drive is being corrupted.
> 
> I am thinking that I have a bad cable, and I may need to order one or 
> the parts for one.
> 
> The missaligned floppy made it look like the problems with the floppy 
> drives was worse.
> 
> I should have enough parts for three floppy subsystems.
> 
> This has interfered with my trying to improve my program that reads the 
> 3.5"  Coco floppies in a DOS box on Windows 9x.
> 
> I will probably not have any time to work on it for the rest of this year.
> 
> -John
> wb8tyw at qsl.net
> Personal Opinion Only
> 
> 
John~

	If you want to borrow, pieces from me,  you are welcome.

I have a 2 5.25 drives and a 3.5 drive in a case, connects to external 
Power Supply.  My Disto II controller, isn't working right now, So I can 
not fully test the drives, but they did work last summer.

~David Hazelton




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