fpo9 wasRe: [Coco] NitrOS-9 Team:

[Willard Goosey]

>From: jdaggett at gate.net
>Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2006 14:28:49 -0400

>I have FTP tools, ,what I need to know is where to FTP them to and any login 
>and/or passwords. 

ftp.rtsi.com
ftp.maltedmedia.com
use "anonymous" for the login name, your email address as password.

on RTSI, there's OS9/incoming and RSDOS/incoming for upload
directories.

on maltedmeda, put things in /incoming and let the admin know what it
is in a email so he can put it where it should go.
>
>The FP09(MC6839) source code that I have is zipped into a file. 

You had me worried there for a moment.

>The Exorcisor is an old system that Motorola developed in the
>70's. 

I've heard of it, and knew it could have a 6809.  Operating systems
that ran on it include: MDOS, OS9, SDOS, and SDOS/MT.  The 68K version
was apparently called the EXORmacs.  I also know that people wired
both 8" and 5.25" floppy drives up to it.  And that's all I know
about it.  I would love to know more.

>Eight inch drives were the norm then. They were big and
>noisy. 

Gotta agree with you there, especially the full-height drives.

>I have worked with them before.  The rule of thumb was save
>your work often and keep multiple backups. The drives were not as
>reliable as modern floppy drives.

I've had two reliablity problems with 8" drives.  First, my S-100 CP/M
box keeps killing B:, and I'm running out of extra DSDD drives. :-(
The second problem I've had with 8" drives is that they will always
screw a loaded disk if they get power-cycled.  This is a BAD thing
when your power grid is as unreliable as mine. 

BTW the other machine I have with 8" floppy drives is an HP 9845B.  It
has two SSDD full-height 8" drives, each in a seperate box about the
size of a PC case...  And for some reason it only puts 65
tracks/disk.  It's a monster.  I love it. ;-)

I was utterly terrified you'd have some wierd MDOS (or whatever) disk
that I'd have to try to write a CP/M disk converter program for...  

Willard
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Willard Goosey  goosey at sdc.org
Socorro, New Mexico, USA
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