[Coco] MM/1 Wiki

[John Donaldson]

I bought the CDROM and drivers at a COCOFest. Trying to remember who I 
bought it from. IIRC he and his wife still come to the COCOfest. He 
produced a lot of software for the MM/1.

John Donaldson



Bob Devries wrote:

> Hi John, you mentioned:
>
>> It had 2 SCSI drives, 2 floppies, and a SCSI CDROM.
>
>
> I don't remember ever seeing drivers for the CDROM. Were they 
> commercial? I have access to a number of old Apple Macs which have 
> SCSI CDROM drives, and could probably purloin one for the MM/1.
>
> I once saw a mention of a program called Desktop for the MM/1... some 
> kind of GUI, I think. Does anyone know about this?
>
> -- 
> Regards, Bob Devries, Dalby, Queensland, Australia
>
> Isaiah 50:4 The sovereign Lord has given me
> the capacity to be his spokesman,
> so that I know how to help the weary.
>
> website: http://www.home.gil.com.au/~bdevasl
> my blog: http://bdevries.invigorated.org/
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Donaldson" 
> <johnadonaldson at sbcglobal.net>
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 11:35 AM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] MM/1 Wiki
>
>
>> I had a MM/1. In fact I was one of the lucky ones that received a 
>> complete set of OSK manuals. Mine always booted from the floppy drive 
>> then transfered control to the hard drive. It had 2 SCSI drives, 2 
>> floppies, and a SCSI CDROM. When we move to Virginia, I sold it to 
>> Dave Kelly. Last I heard Dave still has it and it still runs. Mine 
>> also had the memory on the backplane. I had 4Meg of memory on mine.
>>
>> BTW, I wrote Kterm for the MM/1 and also ported RIBBS to the MM/1. I 
>> was one of a very few that also got articles printed in Rainbow about 
>> the MM/1. If you search around in "Tandy's Little Wonder", you will 
>> find my name in the MM/1 section.
>>
>> John Donaldson
>>
>>
>> Bob Devries wrote:
>>
>>> Joel said:
>>>
>>>> MM/1 owners are the rarest of the rare.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hehe, and some of us are even rarer. Since I'm probably the only 
>>> active Aussie MM/1 owner, I'd qualify for being on the endangered 
>>> species list. (HUGE GRIN)
>>>
>>> Perhaps a list of software specific to the MM/1 would be a good 
>>> thing on the wiki, too. For example, Mike Knudsen's UltiMuse, and 
>>> Bob van der Poel's Ved/VPrint. I'm sure there's software out there 
>>> that I haven't heard about. :(
>>>
>>> How about disk images of the disks which were supplied with the MM/1?
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Regards, Bob Devries, Dalby, Queensland, Australia
>>>
>>> Isaiah 50:4 The sovereign Lord has given me
>>> the capacity to be his spokesman,
>>> so that I know how to help the weary.
>>>
>>> website: http://www.home.gil.com.au/~bdevasl
>>> my blog: http://bdevries.invigorated.org/
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joel Ewy" <jcewy at swbell.net>
>>> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>>> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 1:37 PM
>>> Subject: [Coco] MM/1 Wiki
>>>
>>>
>>>> MM/1 owners are the rarest of the rare.  There is comparatively 
>>>> abundant
>>>> information of all sorts for the CoCo, but very very little info on 
>>>> the
>>>> Web about the MM/1, making these interesting machines potentially much
>>>> harder to keep running.  A while back I asked Allen Huffman if he 
>>>> would
>>>> mind my starting a Wiki section relating to the MM/1 at coco25.com, 
>>>> and
>>>> he had no problem with it.  So I promptly failed to do it.
>>>>
>>>> I propose we do that as a repository for technical info about the 
>>>> MM/1.
>>>> I've got a user manual, technical reference manual, some schematics 
>>>> for
>>>> memory and I/O boards, and even a few other interesting goodies 
>>>> like the
>>>> BOM for the memory and I/O boards that could be scanned.
>>>>
>>>> How many MM/1 owners are there on this list?  I know of Bob Devries 
>>>> and
>>>> myself.
>>>>
>>>> JCE
>>>>
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