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[George's Coco Address]

  My CoCos are tools. I use them to supplement my productivity.

  I use my main coco3 (with hard disk and com ports, 6809) to facilitate my 
inability to write a program on this XP-Pro box.
  I can write a program(B09) to do what I can't do on this PC.
  I use the PC to develop the files I need. I transfer these files to my 
coco. Then, my B09 programs process these files into what I need to do for 
my "task at hand" and then transfer the results back to this PC. From there 
I can enjoy the result of "time saved".

  Believe it or not!

 My coco is my REAL workhorse when this gig+ PC can't help me.

 So there! PTPTPTPT

 Now, if I knew how to write a real program on this XP-Pro box, I wouldn't 
need the coco as much as I do now, but I cannot replace these old boxes. 
It's too darned easy to interface them with the real world. The expansion 
slot is simple, slow and easy to wire up. I don't have to think about eddy 
currents, inner electrode capacitance and cross-coupling or radiation as I 
would with this high powered PC.
 My cocos would NEVER interfere with my satellite receiver, my TV, my 
radio.... well maybe AM radio....

 D'ya want to build a super expansion board? That's cool. I don't need it. I 
already have all I need to do what I need. Anything more is frivolous.

 However, I do not have the same needs as do other folks, so all this is a 
moot point for those folks who want more.

 I do wish to obtain(later) some of the Cloud-9 stuff....
 I will eventually require the IDE interface, once my SCSI drives die.
 I would like to have the PC keyboard interface so I can lose the dying coco 
keyboards I have.
 I think the flash card thing would be fun also. I might could use that on 
my "Darkroom Coco" instead of the floppy.  Unfortunately, the memory card 
reader/writer has to use the IDE interface. I do not need a card 
reader/writer for this application.  The main coco WOULD need the IDE card 
with the reader/writer to feed my other coco. The other(darkroom coco) 
wouldn't need a disk drive it could use the card interface to boot OS-9.
 The memory card reader/writer would be nice if it was just a stand-alone 
interface. That's what I would like to have. I could move programs between 
the two cocos more easily(SneakerNet). The whole OS could be on the card and 
anything I want to modify would be easy and fast. ( Of course, this would 
take a ROM update)

 My main coco with the hard disk is where I develop darned near all my B09 
software. The darkroom coco is the recipient of these efforts(via floppies). 
I would trust a memory card over the floppies any day.

 I don't use any of the COM programs to transfer files to and from the coco 
and this PC. I use SHELL.  Some of the utilities that came with the "OS-L2 
BBS" system I bought years ago,  work fine to move file back and forth.

 I love those utilities that came with this package.

 I use Hyperterm to talk to OS-9. It's like having a coco on my PC.

 My coco is a remote computer that I can use on this PC!

 NOT the other way around.

 I LOVE OS-9!!



George