[Coco] DriveWire is just a hobby (Was: DW4 on MAc & Linux)

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 26 September 2013 21:29:05 Al Hartman did opine:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gene Heskett
> 
> >> I am OS agnostic. I use Windows, Linux (since 1988 or so),
> > 
> > That would be a trick, since linus didn't announce it till 1991. :) 
> > I've been using it since late 1998, red hat 5.0.
> 
> Must be  1991 then, because I was living in Brooklyn, in an apartment I
> lived in in the early 90's, and running Executor 0.99 on Linux.
> 
> >> But, I have a lot of reading about OS9 to do. And I need a better
> >> display for my Coco 3 than my 26 inch TV and Composite Cable. I see
> >> an RGB to VGA Monitor cable in my future.
> > 
> > And one of Roy's adaptors too I assume.
> 
> I didn't think I needed one of those. I can probably get a Tandy monitor
> cheaper than Roy's Adapter.

Maybe, but with your eyesight also a concern, Roys adaptor, driving a $20 
yard sale LCD monitor, will be at least 4x sharper.  I have seen many a 
tandy sourced monitor, and have yet to see one that didn't make an 80 
column screen so blurry from loss of bandwidth that it was at best, 
unpleasant to use.  Besides that, the lcd monitor weighs 40 lbs less than 
one of the old tube monsters.
> 
> Money is tight, and I've gone hog wild lately. Luckily some of the stuff
> I put on eBay is selling to pay for it all.
> 
> >> I bought a small desk from Walmart
> >> (http://www.walmart.com/ip/Urban-Shop-Z-Shaped-Student-Desk-Silver/24
> >> 216266),
> > 
> > Thats a situp deal, not at all what I had in mind.
> 
> That's because a Coco is a situp computer. Can't run that in my bed.
> Can't use real 5.25" drives with an emulator on my laptop.
> 
> You're printing from OS9, I'd only want to print from RS-DOS apps.
> 
> > I need a burner too, but I'm not about to put $1k+ into a zeltek.  One
> > of Dennis GMM devices would work just fine for this.
> 
> I own three; a Color Burner, an Intronics Burner, and an older burner
> that I haven't yet remembered who made it.
> 
> For what I need, a $40 Willem Burner would work fine.
> 
> -[ Al ]-
> 
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Cheers, Gene
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