[Coco] OS-9 Level 1
gene heskett
gheskett at wdtv.com
Sun Feb 26 23:02:42 EST 2012
On Sunday, February 26, 2012 10:42:41 PM Stephen H. Fischer did opine:
> Hi,
>
> I think that I have found a copy of the original OS-9 L1 disk.
>
> -----------------
> OS-9 LEVEL ONE VR. 02.00.00
> COPR. 1980 BY MOTOROLA INC. AND
> MICROWARE SYSTEMS CORP.
> LICENSED TO TANDY CORP.
> ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
>
This is not the original, it is version 02.00.00, which was built after it
became obvious that longer names were needed for the functions, so the defs
were changed to allow names such as I$GetStt, 2 chars longer than the
original. This was sold IIRC for $29.95 as an upgrade to the original, and
this allowed me to understand what it was doing so much easier that I
switched immediately. In my house, one could say the rest is history.
This version was also, in my experience, much more stable than 01.xx.xx,
and gave me uptimes from power failure induced reboot to the next power
failure, sometimes many months when it was being used as the EDISK for a
GVG video switcher.
Much of what is on this disk was replaced in the following year or so.
By the time I built gvg_control for the EDISK at the tv station, level 1
version 2 was fairly mature, with things like rs232.dr having been replaced
with the more versatile aciapak.dr for instance. There were I believe
other drivers that were also changed, but I'd have to go unpack the build
disks I used to get any more explicit as to what was changed.
> /H0
> /H0/Cmds
> -----------------
>
> I have extracted that text using wordpad on vista.
>
> I am bothered by the "/H0"
/H0 was tandy's attempt to sell either a 15 megabyte or a 35 megabyte(IIRC)
hard drive kit for the coco. The controller, a SASI controller sold for
$130, and the drive for another $600 IIRC. Obviously it sold like very old
moldy hot cakes. Satire intended.
> Here is the full contents of the disk.
>
> Any one see something that is missing or that should not be there?
>
> -----------------
>
> HDirect log taked on 12/02/26 16:05:35 (CMD line control
> 91/03/05)
>
> "COLOR COMPUTER DISK" created on: 1985/08/02
> Capacity: 630 sectors (1-sector clusters)
> 75 free sectors, largest block 75 sectors
> Last Modified
> Size
>
>
> OS9Boot 85/08/02 14:00
> 3616 11 $C1 $5E46DE . IOMan
> 24 $D1 $157744 . RBF
> 4 $E1 $60DA8C . CCDisk
> 82 $F1 $ED889E . D0
> 82 $F1 $69EBE5 . D1
> 10 $D1 $815287 . SCF
> 12 $E1 $08C80A . CCIO
> 1 $C1 $658F72 . CO32
> 83 $F1 $EB47E7 . TERM
> 10 $E1 $AEB2CA . PRINTER
> 83 $F1 $8BE6AE . P
> 7 $E1 $09715B . RS232
> 83 $F1 $06AD62 . T1
> 4 $D1 $1A9CC4 . PipeMan
> 2 $E1 $5B2B56 . Piper
> 80 $F1 $CC06AF . Pipe
> 5 $C1 $7FD233 . Clock
> 12 $C1 $DE6D76 . SysGo
> 20 $11 $59ECC8 . Shell
> CMDS 12/02/26 16:03
> 680 asm 85/08/02 14:09
> 16E5 attr 85/08/02 14:09
> 285 backup 85/08/02 14:09
> 4B2 binex 85/08/02 14:09
> 278 build 85/08/02 14:09
> 54 cmp 85/08/02 14:09
> 1019 cobbler 85/08/02 14:09
> 314 copy 85/08/02 14:09
> 2DC date 85/08/02 14:10
> FD dcheck 85/08/02 14:10
> 27C6 debug 85/08/02 14:10
> 817 del 85/08/02 14:10
> A5 deldir 85/08/02 14:10
> 27C dir 85/08/02 14:10
> 35D display 85/08/02 14:10
> 84 dsave 85/08/02 14:10
> 1A18 dump 85/08/02 14:11
> 240 echo 85/08/02 14:11
> 22 edit 85/08/02 14:11
> 1516 exbin 85/08/02 14:11
> 1BA format 85/08/02 14:11
> A88 free 85/08/02 14:11
> 2D1 ident 85/08/02 14:11
> 6E7 iniz 85/08/02 14:11
> 6A link 85/08/02 14:12
> 2C list 85/08/02 14:12
> 4F load 85/08/02 14:12
> 24 login 85/08/02 14:12
> 49E makdir 85/08/02 14:12
> 22 mdir 85/08/02 14:12
> 24D merge 85/08/02 14:12
> 68 mfree 85/08/02 14:12
> 176 os9gen 85/08/02 14:12
> 598 printerr 85/08/02 14:13
> F6 procs 85/08/02 14:13
> 2D2 pwd 85/08/02 14:13
> 130 pxd 85/08/02 14:13
> 130 rename 85/08/02 14:13
> 11D save 85/08/02 14:13
> 67 setime 85/08/02 14:13
> 118 shell 85/08/02 14:13
> 4FA sleep 85/08/02 14:13
> 4D tee 85/08/02 14:14
> 7D tmode 85/08/02 14:14
> 300 tsmon 85/08/02 14:14
> 88 tuneport 85/08/02 14:14
> 590 unlink 85/08/02 14:14
> 38 verify 85/08/02 14:14
> 172 xmode 85/08/02 14:14
> 3B1 grfo 85/08/02 14:14
> 41D SYS 12/02/26 16:03
> A0 errmsg 85/08/02 14:15
> C90 password 85/08/02 14:15
> 75 motd 85/08/02 14:15
> 21 startup 85/08/02
> 14:15 E DEFS
> 12/02/26 16:03 E0 OS9Defs
> 85/08/02 14:15 48F3 RBFDefs
> 85/08/02 14:16 11B5 SCFDefs
> 85/08/02 14:16 F51 SysType
> 85/08/02 14:16 2F6 Defsfile
> 85/08/02 14:16 81
>
> -----------------
>
> SHF
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Wayne Campbell" <asa.rand at gmail.com>
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2012 9:06 PM
> Subject: [Coco] OS-9 Level 1
>
> ...
>
> > I lack:
> >
> > OS-9 Level 1 boot and system master disk images
> > Level 1 Basic09 disk image
> > any other original distribution disk images
>
> ...
>
> > Wayne
>
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Cheers, Gene
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