[Coco] [Color Computer] Program Wanted

[George's Coco Address]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "L. Curtis Boyle"
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 9:11 AM
Subject: Re: [Coco] [Color Computer] Program Wanted


> On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 16:00:04 -0600, George's Coco Address
> <yahoo at dvdplayersonly.com> wrote:
>
>>  I'm reminded of the "OS-9 Level 2 BBS".. I still have it now, but it is
>> mostly useless except for some of the utilities that came with it.
>> Daily, I use "dloadx", uloadx", "dloady", "uloady", depending on the file
>> type and size. The BBS system was quite remarkable inasmuch as it was
>> fast
>> and fairly easy to configure.
>>  It's sad that today, a BBS is history.
>>
>>
>>  Later, I called back and discovered the phone I called was a pay phone
>> in a
>> college dormitory.
>>
>>  The author of the software was gone and ...... the rest is history..
>    If you are talking about Keith Alphonso (Alpha Software), I am
> surprised... we (Bill Nobel and I) also contacted him for help, and was
> very helpful (including letting us get dis-assembled source of some of his
> utilities for use in our work enviornment, which used to run on a Coco 3
> system in the early 1990's).


 I found the manual that came with it and sure enough, it was Keith 
Alphonso. My guess is that he released this BBS just before he graduated 
from college. I tried to call after he left. The copyright in the manual is 
1988.

George