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

[jimcox at miba51.com]

On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 13:28:47 -0500 (EST)
  Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu> wrote:
>On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Gene Heskett wrote:
>
>> Thats sad, Art.  Thanks for the update.  I actually ran 
>>wefax a few 
>> times at the tv station back in the mid 80's, but my 
>>poor old pin 
>> pounder printer, and a lack of a sync detector in the 
>>software made 
>> it less than usefull for our weather people.  I suppose 
>>the output 
>> could have been saved, and a sync utility run over it to 
>>make it nice 
>> and square, but I didn't then know enough about 
>>programming the coco 
>> to do that.
>> 
>
>As I recall (and I never used the software, though I did 
>see examples of
>its output), you were supposed to open up the CoCo and 
>adjust a trimming
>capacitor (which acted as fine adjustment on some aspect 
>of the CoCo's
>timing) until the graphs came out square, which meant 
>your CoCo's timing
>was according to spec.  The typical CoCo would be a 
>little off unless
>adjusted.  This was supposed to be a one-time adjustment. 
> Dunno how well
>this worked.
>
>Art
>

Art:

Can Wefax still be used today?

Jim