[Coco] old backups, RESTORED!
Willard Goosey
goosey at virgo.sdc.org
Sun Jan 9 02:41:30 EST 2011
On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 10:44:22PM -0500, Steven Hirsch wrote:
> in my A2000. Didn't register when I first read your note (not enough
> morning coffee yet, I guess). AmiTCP is installed. Never figured out how
> to get SMB going, though.
AFAIK smb-handler19.lzh is still the newest smb-client. I think it
only supports plaintext paswords. It took a little fiddling to get
the mount-list right but it wasn't really horrible. The English docs
are kind of fractured, but Amiga people are used to that. ;-)
>
> One of my co-workers related a saying from the early 80s to the effect
> that "..a PC is a real computer with a toy operating system, while the
> CoCo is a toy computer with a real operating system". A bit of hyperbole,
> but made me chuckle.
>
At least the CoCo used a real disk controller.
Willard
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