[Coco] FW: Attempting to upgrade a CoCo2

[Mike Howard]

Don't worry about it Kip. know the feeling  as I fall
quite often it's no fun for sure. Hope he is mending..
As too my problem with OS-9 I do have a serial cable
tied in to my PC. I 'm using DW3 it seems to be a bit
 easier to use than DW4. than dw4.

On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 11:04 PM, Kip Koon <computerdoc at sc.rr.com> wrote:

> Hi Mike,
> I apologize for missing your email.  I have had quite a week last week.
> To make a long story short, my dad fell backwards off the back steps, hit
> his head on the brick patio which turned out to be ok, landed on his left
> hip which is also ok - just bruised, and he tried to soften his fall with
> his left hand - ouch!  He hurt his wrist pretty bad and broke both bones in
> his left arm.  He has since had his left wrist and arm operated on and now
> has screws in his wrist on a metal plate on the outside bone in his left
> arm.  The other bone was already aligned so the surgeon left it alone.  I
> now affectionately call him "RoboPOP"!  His healing is progressing.
> Now for you request to get OS-9 or NitrOS-9 running on your Coco 3 with
> 512KB Ram and 6309 cpu chip and two floppy drives.  Before I make my
> recommendation, do you have a serial cable connected to the Serial I/O port
> on your Coco3 with the other end of the cable connected to a serial port on
> the RS-232 serial port of a windows PC to access Drivewire 4?
> If so, I can create a NitrOS-9 image to boot from the PC through Drivewire
> 4.  If not, I will need to create a couple floppies for which I will need
> the format of the floppy drives you have connected to the Coco 3.  Once I
> have this information, I will then be able to create the NitrOS-9 image you
> need.  Take care my friend.
>
> Kip Koon
> computerdoc at sc.rr.com
> http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Kip_Koon
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Coco [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Mike
> Howard
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2016 2:35 PM
> > To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> > Subject: Re: [Coco] FW: Attempting to upgrade a CoCo2
> >
> > ok KIp just checked and I am running the 6309 CPU I remember the last
> time i ran os9 there was a file on desktop that all I had to do
> > was click on it and it would start os9
> >
> >
> > On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 1:42 PM, Mike Howard <mkhwrd80 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > ok NitrOS-9 will be fine
> > >
> > > On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 2:46 PM, Tormod Volden <lists.tormod at gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > >> On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 7:40 PM, Mike Howard wrote:
> > >> > As too os9 or nitrOS-9 either one I guess. Which one you suggest is
> > >> > ok
> > >> by
> > >> > me...
> > >>
> > >> If you want to use DriveWire, or 6309 optimizations, it must be
> NitrOS-9.
> > >>
> > >> Tormod
> > >>
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