[Coco] Re: [Color Computer] BBS Programs for COCO3/OS9

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 25 January 2005 22:31, Tom Watt wrote:
>When you say disk drives, do you mean floppy drives or hard drives? 
>   Either way I’d have to wait or look for something else.  I saw a
> cable that lets you use your PC as a hard drive, would that work?

Ask Mark at www.cloud9tech.com, thats his product.  He may even have a 
FAQ for that item on his web page.

>>Where do I get OS9 itself?  Right now I don’t have a single item
> related to a COCO in any way.  The COCO3’s listed on eBay currently
> make no mention of OS9.
>
Nowadays, its called nitros9, Mark can supply that too for a nominal 
copying fee.

>A multi-pak is just a multi-cartridge adaptor right?  What do I need
> for multiple RS232 ports?

With its own power supply and slot selection logic, yes.  As far as 
the rs-232 stuff, its not that hard to take an old DC-300 modem pack, 
and turn it into a full fledged rs-232 pack if its in an MPI which 
will furnish the +-12 power it needs.  And its not that hard to 
piggyback a second ACIA addressed at the adjacent 4 byte wide block 
to get two rs-232 ports up and running.  I did that with an old 1200 
baud logitech seriel mouse on the second port, best mouse ever for a 
coco, but that needs a patched cc3io module to pick up the mouse 
data.

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