[Coco] booted again!

[James Hrubik]

Well, for the first time in a number of years I was able to make some  
space on a desk in an abandoned bedroom (son got married and I  
inherited <G>) -- a room which I had originally designed and finished  
as an office, with multiple outlets and phone ports for modems and ...

Long story short, the CoCo3 booted up fine.  Had to remember to turn  
on the Multi-pack (wasn't seeing the Disk Basic notice at first) and  
had to reset and reboot OS-9 ( boot hung on the first try) after  
turning everything back off, wiggling the contacts on the Multi-Pack  
and disk controller, and reinserting the floppy.  Alas, I have work  
to do, since it's only 1906 again.  Not too bad, though, considering  
the machine has been sitting idle for years, and the boot floppy is a  
1.44 made 720 with the hole taped over, and I cobbled it at least 10  
years ago.

Have to degauss the Maggie again.  Screen has gangrene, looks like.

Have to build a drive enclosure and try out my Glenside IDE interface.

Maybe instead of playing Wingnut on the iMac I'll do some  
recreational computing...

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