[Coco] OS9

Zippster zippster278 at gmail.com
Tue May 10 10:00:54 EDT 2016


I emailed a bit with Lvcian back when he contacted the group, and sent him a set of floppies
for 68K based OS-9 to help with his project.  Thanks to John Linville I have originals. Thanks John!   :)

I wonder how his project is going?

- Ed


> On Dec 18, 2015, at 1:39 PM, Camillus <camillus.b.58 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Well I'm a retired IT tech from the Belgium Railroad and live in USA with my wife. I'm a proud coco owner since the coco I came out. ( Was my 3 rd computer after a Sinclair ZX81 and TRS80 Model I).
> 
> I'm also a hobbyist electronic and want to build a new world, but alas didn't work yet...LOL
> 
> So for your problem you can look in:
> 
> http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/ 
> 
> and hopefully you find what you looking for. Of course all the OS9 goodies you gonna find there is most for 6809/6309 but If my memory ( what memory?? ) serves me right there is some 68K stuff too.  
> 
> cb
> 
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> On 12/18/2015 1:23:18 PM, Lucian <lvcianvltava at g.ucla.edu> wrote:
> I apologize for the scant previous message -- i really didn't think i would
> get any kind of response....
> 
> My name is Lvcian. I work as an electronics technician for a
> geo/cosmo-chemistry research group at UCLA. There three big SIMS (secondary
> ion mass spectrometry) instruments in our facility in addition to various
> other diagnostic auxiliary scientific instruments--but the main instruments
> are all controlled by 68K-series motorola VME computers. I recently decided
> to teach myself as much about these computers as I can and have begun to
> build a 68008-based single board computer to play with real time operating
> systems.......this is how i came to find out about OS-9 and microware. I
> would like to play/learn these vintage UNIX-like computing environments
> .....but trying to do anything series aside from being better informed and
> do a better job at upkeeping and maybe int he future upgrade the instruments
> i maintain.
> 
> what kind of work do you do ?
> 
> Best Regards,
> Lvcian
> 
> 
> 
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