[Coco] OS9 68K

[Dave Philipsen]

Just FYI, there was a product called DigiCart made by 360 Systems that 
employed a 68000 running OS9/68k.  Like this one: 
http://www.ebay.com/itm/360-Systems-DigiCart-II-Plus-Digital-Audio-Recorder-/222270160290 
or this one: 
http://www.ebay.com/itm/360-Systems-DigiCart-II-Plus-Hard-Disk-Digital-Audio-Recorder-/122340510668?hash=item1c7c100bcc:g:QgoAAOSwUKxYlJrH.

When I worked for a company just a few miles down the road from 
Microware we acquired one of these for a project and cracked the case 
open.  Inside, we found a 68000 and we somehow got wind that it was 
running OS9 (I think one of the folks at Microware informed us).  There 
is a serial port on the back of the unit and through some sort of 
keypress combination we were able to get a shell on the serial port.  
One of these days I may pick one up off of eBay and play around with it 
again.

Dave


On 3/11/2017 6:13 PM, Allen Huffman wrote:
> On Mar 11, 2017, at 3:44 PM, Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 3/9/17 12:06 AM, James Ross wrote:
>>> David Linsley said:
>>>> I remember conversing with the purveyor of the WCP306 back in the day too.
>>>> Found a reference here:
>>>> http://www.verycomputer.com/10_bf7cd3fd15b0878f_1.htm
>>> Ahh... so there were two different OS-9 68k boxes that could use PC peripherals. The WCP306 & PT68K-4.
>>>
>> Weren't CD-I (CD Interactive) boxes M68K based?
> Yep, their CD-RTOS was OS-9/68K 2.4 I think. Boisy Pitre created a CD-I CD that would boot to an OS-9 shell and could run programs. At the time, I thought it could have been the true OSK solution for the masses since there were cheap systems for sale at the time.
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