[Coco] Re: Disk Basic and 512 byte block floppies.

[ostro011]

On 21 Jan 2004, Arthur Flexser wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, ostro011 wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Maybe I'm remembering this wrong, but I seem to recall that Marty
Goodman
> > was the author of Graphicom, or at least the seller.  Didn't he own
> > Cheshire Cat Software, and didn't they sell Graphicom?  Anyone remember
for
> > sure?  It's quite possible I'm confused.
> > 
> > -- Steve --
> 
> Marty, who was indeed Cheshire Cat Software, was the seller but not the
> author.  It was written by Peter Ryan, a friend of Marty's who also wrote
> the CoCo Wefax software, both of which Marty wrote about in
> Rainbow.  Peter chose to remain anonymous and let Marty publicize and
> distribute the software.  Unfortunately Peter, a brilliant fellow by
> Marty's account whom I met briefly at the Palo Alto Rainbowfest, died a
> few years ago from AIDS.  Graphicom was written in Forth, BTW, using a
> CoCo version that was never marketed (though not written by Peter).
> 
> Art
> 
> 
> 
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Thanks, Art, for this piece of Coco history.

-- Steve --