[Coco] New system

[Bill Pierce]

Chester,
as soon as I get the floppies going again, I may get up with ya and pick your brain.
I too will eventually pick up stuff from Cloud 9 but I want to see these drives runand get what's on them first.

thanx
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Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: Chester A Patterson <chester6809 at gmail.com>
To: 'CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts' <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Fri, Dec 30, 2011 11:46 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] New system


I used to work at Howard Medical in Chicago doing all the Coco and Tandy
tuff (hard drives and ram expansions for 1000HX and 1000EX). We sold a
unch of B'n'B hard drive rigs, with and without the XT-ROM.
T-ROM boots OS9 from track 128 or, if you hold down the shift key, track
29.
y personal rig (before I installed Cloud9 hardware and software) was one
0MB Seagate (noisy buggers!), one DTC-5150 HD controller, and one XT-ROM
nstalled.
rack 128 had regular OS9, track 129 booted Multi-Vue. Them were the days! I
ad to format it all when I pulled it from storage several years ago.
hat HD rig is now again parked and stored away for posterity. I'd sell it
ut shipping this thing securely to the US (or elsewhere) from Costa Rica is
rohibitive.
t got so I could do rigs practically with my eyes closed. That was a LONG
ime ago. Some of you may recall utility programs like EZGEN, which was a
ery powerful bootfile (or any other file) editor, now I guess a clunker,
ut since I know how to use it in my sleep I still prefer it.
You need a bootdisk. If my Coco were assembled and running at the moment I'd
ake you a nice bootdisk. Alas, at this time I cannot. But everything you
eed is available on the www. And I as well have it. If you wish, send me a
essage off list and I'll send you the goods. Warning: It is a royal pain in
he butt for those uninitiated! Lots of reading the scanned original
anuals.
Chester
osta Rica
-----Original Message-----
rom: gene heskett [mailto:gheskett at wdtv.com] 
ent: Friday, December 30, 2011 1:30 PM
o: coco at maltedmedia.com
ubject: Re: [Coco] New system
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"

hat I can recall was that I only made it work once.  It works by loading 
hatever is on cylinder 132 IIRC, with an alternate load from 134 I think. 
IIRC only if the XT rom is in it) But that's subject to my poor memory 
ince there was apparently some oddity in the read timing of my very early 
it, particularly when reading FAT sectors, so it would read a sector full 
f zeros from the FAT during about 1% of the writes it made.  That was my 
omputers-101 introduction to maintaining an os9 file system with dEd, 
efinitely not a pleasant time.
That was one of the original kits, probably seriel number 3 if there were 
uch, a black sandwich of alu with post spacers, and with the RTC.  I even 
ried 2 different WD controller cards without effecting that problem.  But 
 later bought one of the formed, gold colored kits for my office machine, 
nd that one has yet to drop a single bit that I know of.  It Just 
orks(TM).  And I still have that one.
I should have the disks, but TBT, the software is part of the Nitros9 tree, 
nder 3rdparty I believe.  But I've no idea if the rom images are in there.
If not, its still usable but boots from a floppy.  In any event if the roms 
ren't there, I'm not sure how I could extract it from my working 
ontroller.
> thanx
 Bill Pierce
 ooogalapasooo at aol.com
 
 
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