[Coco] CoCo3 and OS-9

John R. Hogerhuis jhoger at pobox.com
Wed Sep 21 15:25:06 EDT 2005


On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 08:06 -0700, Andrew wrote:
> What about a real-time clock - is this a needed thing, or a luxury? I 
> suppose it depends on what is planned to be done with the system. How 
> about extra memory? We know 512K is a comfortable "minimum" - but can it 
> be done with only 128K (maybe with a hard drive or external RAM drive)? 
> Or setup on a CoCo 2 system? Is it possible (today) to get larger 
> expansion memory (like you could in the day up to 2 meg)? From where 
> (Cloud-9?)...?

You could use a Cloud-9 drivewire serial cable and software to make a pc
or laptop act as disk storage. It will also set the system time to match
the PC.

-- John.




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