[Coco] NitrOS-9 instant boot CoCo

[Roger Taylor]

At 03:46 PM 8/5/2007, you wrote:

>Roger:
>
>         The SuperIDE does that 'from the factory'. At least if you 
> have NitrOS9 on a CF installed by Cloud-9.
>
>         Mine takes 10 seconds to boot from the CF (loads a bunch of 
> stuff on startup) if I bypass the 15 second timeout that lets you 
> chose OS9 or DECB. Just a SuperIDE plugged into the ROM port (and a 
> 15" LCD display).



That sounds nice.  It's not really ideal to use a clunker HD anymore 
for the CoCo if these gadgets are available.  I say backup those 
drives to the PC and maybe use DriveWire once you've booted from the 
SuperIDE interface.



-- 
Roger Taylor