[Coco] Adventures in resetting up...

[Mark Marlette]

At 05:55 PM 4/23/2005, you wrote:

William,

Sounds like GREAT progress! :)

GREAT to meet you at the fest and hope to see you again next year. What a 
drive you had!

Happy CoCoing!

Mark


>Finally, after a couple of years of having my CoCo system sitting in boxes 
>in the corner for lack of anywhere to set it up, I've got it online with 
>the new goodies I acquired from Cloud9 at the 'fest. So now, I've got a 
>working system with the following:
>
>Coco3 with 6309 processor
>512K RAM
>MPI
>FD502 floppy controller and drive
>SuperIDE with a 128MB flash card and an 85MB IDE drive attached
>CM8 monitor
>AT Keyboard interface
>Drivewire interface
>
>Now I wish I had all that stuff back in the day. :)
>
>So I've managed to get all of it working together sanely. First I got 
>HDB-DOS installed into the SuperIDE. Now that's cool. Then I figured I 
>needed Nitros9 so I downloaded that and set it up so it was available via 
>drivewire and got that going. After some poking around, I finally managed 
>to get my brain to click and I got a functional Nitros9 boot with both the 
>Drivewire and IDE interfaces active. Now that's cool.
>
>Nitros9, Drivewire, HDB-DOS, the SuperIDE, and the AT keyboard interface 
>are really cool items.
>
>One thing I discovered as I was poking around is that you can easily get 
>the SuperIDE and the floppy controller to both work without having to 
>switch any switches on the MPI by putting POKE&HFF7F,255 in the 
>AUTOEXEC.BAS file (assuming your floppy controller is in slot 4), at least 
>on my MPI.
>
>Now all I need is another 360K floppy drive to put into my PC. (The BIOS 
>on my motherboard seems to think it supports 360K 5.25" drives. I wonder 
>if it's telling the truth.) But that's a problem for another day.
>
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