[Coco] DriveWire is just a hobby (Was: DW4 on MAc & Linux)

[Al Hartman]

-----Original Message----- 
From: Gene Heskett

>> I am OS agnostic. I use Windows, Linux (since 1988 or so),

> That would be a trick, since linus didn't announce it till 1991. :)  I've
> been using it since late 1998, red hat 5.0.

Must be  1991 then, because I was living in Brooklyn, in an apartment I 
lived in in the early 90's, and running Executor 0.99 on Linux.

>> But, I have a lot of reading about OS9 to do. And I need a better
>> display for my Coco 3 than my 26 inch TV and Composite Cable. I see an
>> RGB to VGA Monitor cable in my future.

> And one of Roy's adaptors too I assume.

I didn't think I needed one of those. I can probably get a Tandy monitor 
cheaper than Roy's Adapter.

Money is tight, and I've gone hog wild lately. Luckily some of the stuff I 
put on eBay is selling to pay for it all.

>> I bought a small desk from Walmart
>> (http://www.walmart.com/ip/Urban-Shop-Z-Shaped-Student-Desk-Silver/24216266),

> Thats a situp deal, not at all what I had in mind.

That's because a Coco is a situp computer. Can't run that in my bed. Can't 
use real 5.25" drives with an emulator on my laptop.

You're printing from OS9, I'd only want to print from RS-DOS apps.

> I need a burner too, but I'm not about to put $1k+ into a zeltek.  One of
> Dennis GMM devices would work just fine for this.

I own three; a Color Burner, an Intronics Burner, and an older burner that I 
haven't yet remembered who made it.

For what I need, a $40 Willem Burner would work fine.

-[ Al ]-