[Coco] ka9q was Re: Coco Contiki

L. Curtis Boyle curtisboyle at sasktel.net
Wed Feb 27 20:15:49 EST 2008


On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:59:47 -0600, Joel Ewy <jcewy at swbell.net> wrote:

> I'll add a qualified "me too" here.  I have vague memories of hooking
> the CoCo up to a '386SX-40 running SLS Linux (installed from around 10
> floppy disks downloaded from Delphi at 14.4kbps) and transferring a file
> or two via FTP.  My recollection is that it felt a lot slower than I
> thought it should, judging from my experiences using terminal programs
> and xmodem or zmodem on the CoCo, and SLIP/PPP on other mahcines.
> Actually, now that I think about it, I might have been using the TC-9
> rather than a CoCo 3...
>

You are one up on me... everytime I tried to run KA9Q on my TC-9, it  
outright hung the machine (I always figured that it was hard-coded for the  
RS-232 pak or something, although I never pursued it much).

-- 
L. Curtis Boyle



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