[Coco] OS9 68K

[Allen Huffman]

On Mar 11, 2017, at 11:03 PM, Dave Philipsen <dave at davebiz.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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.

These were used extensively at Walt Disney World playing announcements and such. When I was at RadiSys Microware, someone from Disney contacted me asking about it. They use a Zip disk and he wanted to know how they could read the files on a PC. That's how I found out about them.