[Coco] A little help with OS9

[Dave Philipsen]

On 4/23/2015 8:38 PM, Robert Gault wrote:
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> Reads like you no longer have any disk drives. If that is true, then 
> your best approach would be to run Drivewire4 on your PC connected to 
> your Coco through the serial port. That will require you to have at a 
> minimum a PAK with the Drivewire HDBDOS ROM and make the serial cable.
> Unless you are a hardware tinkerer, making the required cable, burning 
> an EPROM, making a ROM PAK or obtaining a disk controller is not 
> trivial. Good luck! :)
>
> Now you can also go the emulator route which really is very simple.
>
> Robert
>
Ok, so when you say "PAK" you're just talking about any kind of 
cartridge that will take an extension ROM right?  So, if I can burn 
HDBDOS to an EPROM and wire it so that it is selected at $C000 and then 
make a serial cable from the bit-banger port I should be good to go, right?

Dave