[Coco] OS-9 Editor and NitrOS-9 Download
David Hazelton
davehazelton at access-4-free.com
Thu Dec 18 09:45:10 EST 2003
John E. Malmberg wrote:
> Neil Morrison wrote:
>
>> Did you email fug at ipblythe.com ?? I wonder if this has been
>> abandoned. I assume the stuff on RTSI is not what you need.
>
>
> No, I have not e-mailed fug. I probably should.
>
> I have the Cloud-9 CD-ROM of the RTSI archive, but I am still working on
> it.
>
> I have not had time to do much than answer e-mail recently. I am
> currently on the hardware side trying to trouble shoot a second floppy
> subsystem. So far I have been hit with a 3.5 inch drive that appears
> functional but out of allignment. And a problem where the track 0 on
> the 5.25 drive is being corrupted.
>
> I am thinking that I have a bad cable, and I may need to order one or
> the parts for one.
>
> The missaligned floppy made it look like the problems with the floppy
> drives was worse.
>
> I should have enough parts for three floppy subsystems.
>
> This has interfered with my trying to improve my program that reads the
> 3.5" Coco floppies in a DOS box on Windows 9x.
>
> I will probably not have any time to work on it for the rest of this year.
>
> -John
> wb8tyw at qsl.net
> Personal Opinion Only
>
>
John~
If you want to borrow, pieces from me, you are welcome.
I have a 2 5.25 drives and a 3.5 drive in a case, connects to external
Power Supply. My Disto II controller, isn't working right now, So I can
not fully test the drives, but they did work last summer.
~David Hazelton
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