[Coco] [Color Computer] Program Wanted
L. Curtis Boyle
curtisboyle at sasktel.net
Thu Dec 28 10:11:29 EST 2006
On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 16:00:04 -0600, George's Coco Address
<yahoo at dvdplayersonly.com> wrote:
> I'm reminded of the "OS-9 Level 2 BBS".. I still have it now, but it is
> mostly useless except for some of the utilities that came with it.
> Daily, I use "dloadx", uloadx", "dloady", "uloady", depending on the file
> type and size. The BBS system was quite remarkable inasmuch as it was
> fast
> and fairly easy to configure.
> It's sad that today, a BBS is history.
>
> HAH! I remember when I needed to call the author about an issue. The
> answering machine played....
>
> " Hello?....
>
> Hello!
>
>
> I can't hear you.
>
> I still can't hear you!
>
>
> Oh! This is an answering machine, of course I can't hear you.
>
>
> Leave a message."
>
> Later, I called back and discovered the phone I called was a pay phone
> in a
> college dormitory.
>
> The author of the software was gone and ...... the rest is history..
If you are talking about Keith Alphonso (Alpha Software), I am
surprised... we (Bill Nobel and I) also contacted him for help, and was
very helpful (including letting us get dis-assembled source of some of his
utilities for use in our work enviornment, which used to run on a Coco 3
system in the early 1990's).
--
L. Curtis Boyle
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