[Coco] Introducing the next generation of Color Computer, the CoCo-X

[Bill Pierce]

John, then add in all the sources, pdf scans of the manuals and books, etc...

I have 5 different Coco archives on my main computer, 2 of which are copies of the others for working dirs. This way I rpeserve the originals.

Also, I have 2 direct copies of "The Color Computer Archives" for mantainence of the site to help out Guillaume Major. One for reference, one to reorganize. Each of those is over 30 gig. I'd say less than 1/7th of that archive is duplicates.

My largest being over 55 gig which is my main working dir so it has a lot of 132meg VHDs for the emulator & Drivewire.
My main archive is a little over 39 gig. a lot of dupes in this one.

So judging from the average size of my archives, possible missing software (a lot), and duplicates, I'd say there's about 30gig of stuff out there. This includes documentation, emulators, tech reference, and sources. Now if I could add the missing Delphi files....

You have to remember, a lot of software required several disks. At 180k SSDD and 360k DSDD flippies, it adds up. Just the various OS9 releases and support disks, not including games and apps, just the systems add up to quite a few disks. I imagine Flex is the same. Most Coco 3 games (the good ones) were 2 or more disks. VIP Library was what, 5 disks? Kings Quest 3 was 5 disks, Most Sundog Games were 2 disks or more.

Bill P

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-----Original Message-----
From: John Guin <johnguin at hotmail.com>
To: 'CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts' <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Fri, Mar 22, 2013 6:39 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] Introducing the next generation of Color Computer, the CoCo-X


Idle question:

Has anyone ever estimated what the total size of ALL Coco software that
exists fills?

My definition of all would include Basic, OS9 and Flex programs.  As an
order of magnitude exercise, I would estimate the total would be under 1GB.
This assumes 10,000 programs were written total, each one consuming all 64KB
available to the Coco 1/2.  If I got my zeroes right, that is 640MB.

I'm open to criticisms and refinements here,
John

-----Original Message-----
From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
Behalf Of Mark McDougall
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2013 3:19 PM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] Introducing the next generation of Color Computer, the
CoCo-X

On 23/03/2013 9:02 AM, Steven Hirsch wrote:

> Not easy to find?  They're available for a pittance on surplus, 
> overstock and bargain sites.  And, probably will be for a number of 
> years.  Keep in mind that the proliferation of PATA drives corresponds 
> with the period of time where desktop computer sales arguably peaked.  
> There are gazillions of them out there.

I have at least a dozen sitting on my shelves... from 5-1/4" to laptop
drives.

Not to mention all the Compact Flash cards that are ATA compatible...

Also comes in handy when emulating the Cloud-9 SuperIDE controller!

Regards,

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