[Coco] DriveWire survey

Sun May 11 22:35:36 EDT 2014

Kip Koon
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Hi Salvador!
You will find that there are some fantastic and very knowledgable people on
this Coco List!  They have been a great help to me especially back in 2011
when I started revisited my computer roots.  I first started with a Coco 1
Battleship gray myself.  I ended up with a 20MB hard disk drive system
running OS9 using Burke and Burke's XT Hard drive interface when I started
battling in my mind whether or not to switch to the Intel based PCs.  Many
people on this list have Wiki pages on cocopedia.com as well as web pages in
many places on the internet.  Just ask any question you like and someone
here will be able to help you.  Welcome back to the wonderful world of the
great and mighty Color Computer line!  Take care my friend.
Kip

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Behalf Of CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2014 5:50 PM
To: coco at maltedmedia.com
Subject: Re: [Coco] DriveWire survey

Hi Aaron,

I just joined the CoCo list last week. I used a CoCo I back in the early 80s
and have not had any CoCo time since then. In 1984 I moved abroad and took
my CoCo with me, but did not bring it back with me. I subscribed to Color
Computer Magazine and when that went under my subscription transferred to
Rainbow. I stuck with Rainbow till its last issue and then proceeded to
support Dennis Kitz by subscribing to UnderColor and stuck with him until
the last UnderColor shipped. The CoCo that I have (in a far away land) is a
model I, 64K with a floppy drive. I have OS/9 level I, but did not get a
chance to use it much.

I have heard of DriveWire for about 3 years now which is the time that I
have been friends with the people of the GCCC here in the Chicago area. I
hope to get a CoCo 3 emulator and use DriveWire with it, but at this time I
am only beginning to do research to understand how to go about this. I am
impressed with what I have seen regarding DriveWire, including Richard
Crislip's demo at the latest "Last" CoCoFEST! I hope to delve deeper into
DriveWire in the near future.

>From the research that I've done so far, and this is not much, basically
browsing the DriveWire Website, it seems that a limiting factor is the
serial cable that needs to connect the CoCo with the server computer. It
would be nice if the great Ethernet infrastructure could be used for this.
If this is possible then just chalk up an "oops" for me. :-) Since I plan to
do everything via emulation I don't think this might be an issue for me, but
it is something that crossed my mind.

Since this is my first post, I would like to use it as an introduction. I
reside in the Chicago area and am a member of the Glenside Color Computer
Club, albeit my participation is minimal. I am a tinkerer and technology
interests me. I have special respect for past technology because I
understand that thanks to generations past we now have what we have today. 

 I opened the survey, but decided not to take it since it assumes
familiarity with DriveWire, in addition to certain experience which I do not
have.

Best wishes Salvador

-----Original Message-----
From: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sat, May 10, 2014 1:40 pm
Subject: [Coco] DriveWire survey

Hello Coconuts,

I am renewing efforts on DriveWire after a year or so of neglect.  I plan to
clean up and streamline the code.  It grew organically as new ideas were put
into place and has become quite different than the original design was meant
to support.  Before I add the new features that have been requested (and
there are some good ones!) I think I need to fix the foundation.

If you have time to answer this survey about how you use DriveWire, it will
help me know what is important:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1vXEJPPnz4cQhhMun01AE-9aqEKDBf3iMzu3qihgwVZc
/viewform?usp=send_form

Thanks for your time

-Aaron Wolfe

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