[Coco] Hard Drive Partition

[George's Coco Address]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene Heskett"

> On Tuesday 29 May 2007, George's Coco Address wrote:
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: <Steve.Lancaster
>>
>>>I too have ordered the Super IDE with HDB-DOS and SuperDriver on a CF
>>> card.
>>>
>>> Mark has mentioned to me that there are tools in the Coco emulators that
>>> can be used to create .dsk images and Boisy has some tools to assist 
>>> with
>>> writing them to the CF card.
>>>
>>> I've not checked these out yet but I will do so when the package 
>>> arrives.
>>> Mark - I promise to read the instructions first !!!!
>>
>>A few years ago, a co-worker referred to "instructions" as "corrections".
>>Many years ago, inside the front cover page of a broadcast transmitter
>>manual was printed in large, bold letters....
>>
>>"Attention station engineer!
>>Tune for maximum smoke, then read the directions"
>>
>>Gene,
>> That was a Gates 1KW FM transmitter, from the sixties.
>>
>>George
>>
> Chuckle, reminds me of the front cover of the one version covers it all 
> manual
> that came with the Bell Laboratories (no known relation to the telephone 
> bell
> that I was ever aware of) for an audio tape recorder, model RT-7, and 
> which
> stated in about 36 point type:
>
> "Please try our way first"
>
> This was about 1955ish and audio tape recorders were then brand new in the
> audiofile market.
>>

Gene, wasn't that a cart machine?

George