[Coco] booted again!

[John Donaldson]

James,
  Go online and download the NitrOS9 disk. Your OS9 will boot faster and 
all the clock drivers are Y2K fixed.

John Donaldson


James Hrubik wrote:

> Well, for the first time in a number of years I was able to make some  
> space on a desk in an abandoned bedroom (son got married and I  
> inherited <G>) -- a room which I had originally designed and finished  
> as an office, with multiple outlets and phone ports for modems and ...
>
> Long story short, the CoCo3 booted up fine.  Had to remember to turn  
> on the Multi-pack (wasn't seeing the Disk Basic notice at first) and  
> had to reset and reboot OS-9 ( boot hung on the first try) after  
> turning everything back off, wiggling the contacts on the Multi-Pack  
> and disk controller, and reinserting the floppy.  Alas, I have work  
> to do, since it's only 1906 again.  Not too bad, though, considering  
> the machine has been sitting idle for years, and the boot floppy is a  
> 1.44 made 720 with the hole taped over, and I cobbled it at least 10  
> years ago.
>
> Have to degauss the Maggie again.  Screen has gangrene, looks like.
>
> Have to build a drive enclosure and try out my Glenside IDE interface.
>
> Maybe instead of playing Wingnut on the iMac I'll do some  
> recreational computing...
>
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