[Coco] New system

Bruce W. Calkins brucewcalkins at charter.net
Sat Dec 31 06:52:57 EST 2011


I recall from my first CoCo 20 meg hard drive that if you did not park the 
heads when shutting down, ANY movement even as little as a cat walking 
across them would crash the drive.  I was very happy to end that problem 
with the 40 meg unit that auto parked.

Bruce W.

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> On Friday, December 30, 2011 02:09:31 PM Bill Pierce did opine:
>
>> Anyone have ANY info on booting OS9 on a Burke & Burke HD system?  I
>> think it's one of their older systems. This has no ROM and I have no
>> boot disk. It seems the original owner had a disk that booted it from
>> Basic with "DOS"
>
>
>> thanx
>> Bill Pierce 




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