[Coco] BASIC09 - How good is it?

[Allen Huffman]

On May 14, 2013, at 2:28 AM, Nick Marentes <nickma at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> I think the secret to using OS-9 is to have a harddisk setup. Floppy disk is too awkward and frustrating.

To me, it was getting a No Halt floppy controller. Running 40 track double sided (360K) on a single floppy was a huge jump over the 156K standard disks. Before I moved to a hard drive system, I had an 80 track floppy for awhile -- 720K might as well have been a hard drive back then.

Today, DriveWire or the SuperIDE with a CompactFlash card and RGB-DOS would be the way I'd go if starting fresh.

> So much to learn before I can even get started.

I will learn with you, so keep posting.

		-- A