[Coco] strobe disc's photo

Darren A mechacoco at gmail.com
Thu Jun 19 14:05:13 EDT 2014


On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 9:41 AM, Rogelio Perea <os9dude at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu Jun 19 2014, Kandur wrote:
>
> Indeed, If I recall correctly, the speed test was only included in OS9
> Level 1 Version 1. This version of OS9 predates the DOS command days so
> there is an ECB program in that system that is run to either do the drive
> speed check or boot OS9, the later will not run on the CoCo 3 but I have
> never tried the speed check tester on it - when I get home later today.



The speed test program on the OS9 Level 1 boot disk does indeed run on a
CoCo 3.  I used that program for testing the simulated index pulse on the
CoCo SDC to make sure it was firing at the correct rate.

Darren


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