[Coco] Basic09 versions

Dave Philipsen dave at davebiz.com
Wed Jun 7 01:46:22 EDT 2017 

I exchanged a couple of emails with him in March of 2014.  At that time 
I believe he had moved back to the US and I think he was living in 
Oklahoma.  You may know that he lost his wife.  I think it was in 2010.  
Even when I talked with him several years later it seemed like he was 
really having a hard time with that.

  I'm sending him off an email tonight and we'll see if he responds.

Dave


On 6/7/2017 12:34 AM, L. Curtis Boyle wrote:
> Lee retired to Mexico, and took the Coco 1/serial #0001 with him, last time I talked to him (which was the CocoFest before he moved).
>
> L. Curtis Boyle
> curtisboyle at sasktel.net
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>> On Jun 6, 2017, at 11:18 PM, Dave Philipsen <dave at davebiz.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hmmmm....well, it was owned by Lee Veal for many years and I'd have a hard time imagining that he would have ever let go of it.  He was an officer of the Dallas TRS-80 users group (Daltrug) for awhile.  I don't believe he is active on the CoCo scene anymore.
>>
>>
>> Dave
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>> On 6/7/2017 12:12 AM, Wayne Campbell wrote:
>>> Seems I heard that serial# 000001 was being auctioned off, and I don't know
>>> who bought it. I might be not remembering this correctly.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 10:09 PM, Dave Philipsen <dave at davebiz.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Yep.  Definitely nostalgic thinking back...it took a lot more work to find
>>>> the information / parts you needed.  There are a lot of young people that
>>>> don't know what the world was like without Google!
>>>>
>>>> I remember the countless nights coming home to my apartment in Irving, TX
>>>> crunching away on the code for Supercomm and my RuxPro project (programming
>>>> system for Teddy Ruxpin that ran under OS9) and others.  I can remember my
>>>> original RS 300 baud modem with the switch you flipped when you heard the
>>>> carrier on the other end, and how cool it was to upgrade to 1200 then 2400
>>>> then 9600 then 14,400 bps modems, etc.  and all the hand-soldered wires,
>>>> EPROMs, dot-matrix printers, modifications & stuff like that.
>>>>
>>>> I may have mentioned this before but I knew a fellow down there who owned
>>>> a CoCo 1 with serial #000001!  Last time I talked with him a few years ago
>>>> he still had it...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Dave
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 6/6/2017 11:56 PM, Wayne Campbell wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Those were the days. You could find just about anything if you looked
>>>>> around. Now, even googling doesn't always return positive results.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 9:48 PM, Dave Philipsen <dave at davebiz.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> The interesting thing is that sometimes I would go down to the warehouse
>>>>>> and they would have palettes and tables and shelves of discontinued
>>>>>> stuff;
>>>>>> old manuals, software, computers, gadgets, etc. It was a computer geek's
>>>>>> dream come true.  I guess that's why I was always stopping in to see what
>>>>>> cool stuff they might have.  There was also a big ham/electronics flea
>>>>>> market on the first Saturday of every month in Dallas under one of the
>>>>>> freeway overpasses where I would buy RAM chips, EPROMs, CPUs, and that
>>>>>> sort
>>>>>> of thing.  This was circa 1985-1989.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Dave
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 6/6/2017 11:29 PM, Bill Pierce via Coco wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Wayne, I had 2 copies of L1 Basic09 over time, and I don't remember
>>>>>>> either being a flippy. I know RS never did fully support flippies...
>>>>>>> then
>>>>>>> they'd had to admit their drives were double sided and explain why they
>>>>>>> never updated Basic for double sides.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Bill Pierce
>>>>>>> "Charlie stole the handle, and the train it won't stop going, no way to
>>>>>>> slow down!" - Ian Anderson - Jethro Tull
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> My Music from the Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer 2 & 3
>>>>>>> https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/
>>>>>>> Co-Contributor, Co-Editor for CocoPedia
>>>>>>> http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
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>>>>>>> E-Mail: ooogalapasooo at aol.com
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>>> From: Wayne Campbell <asa.rand at gmail.com>
>>>>>>> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>>>>>>> Sent: Wed, Jun 7, 2017 12:23 am
>>>>>>> Subject: Re: [Coco] Basic09 versions
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> That is definitely the Level 1 version. It would be good to have a copy
>>>>>>> inwhatever repository is current. Can you tell me if you remember
>>>>>>> theoriginal floppy being a flippy? I have heard before that it had some
>>>>>>> fileson the opposite side, but I never thought about that when I had my
>>>>>>> Level 1system.On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 9:01 PM, Bill Pierce via Coco <
>>>>>>> coco at maltedmedia.com>wrote:> Wayne, I have a disk image labeled
>>>>>>> "Basic09_1.0.0.dsk", and on it are> BASIC09, INKEY, RUNB, & GFX (no
>>>>>>> directories). When run it displays (level> 1, hence all uppercase):>>
>>>>>>> BASIC09> RS VERSION 01.00.00> COPYRIGHT 1980 BY MOTOROLA INC.> AND
>>>>>>> MICROWARE SYSTEMS CORP.> REPRODUCED UNDER LICENSE> TO TANDY CORP.> ALL
>>>>>>> RIGHTS RESERVED>> I'm pretty sure it's the same one you are referring
>>>>>>> to. I
>>>>>>> remember SYSCALL> was in the manual and you had to assemble it with asm
>>>>>>> yourself.>> I probably copied the disk image from my master disk before
>>>>>>> my
>>>>>>> drives went> out.> I can upload the disk to Guillaume if needed.>>>> The
>>>>>>> manual is already in the colorcomputerarchive:>>
>>>>>>> http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/coco/Documents/Manuals/Programming/
>>>>>>> BASIC09%20Programming%20Language%20Reference%20Manual%20-%
>>>>>>> 20Revision%20H%>
>>>>>>> 20(Microware%20System%20Corp).pdf>> It is copywritten 1980-1984>>>>>
>>>>>>> Bill Pierce> "Charlie stole the handle, and the train it won't stop
>>>>>>> going,
>>>>>>> no way to> slow down!" - Ian Anderson - Jethro Tull>> My Music from the
>>>>>>> Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer 2 & 3> https://sites.google.com/site/
>>>>>>> dabarnstudio/> Co-Contributor, Co-Editor for CocoPedia>
>>>>>>> http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page>> E-Mail:
>>>>>>> ooogalapasooo at aol.com>>>>>> -----Original Message-----> From: Wayne
>>>>>>> Campbell <asa.rand at gmail.com>> To: CoCoList <coco at maltedmedia.com>>
>>>>>>> Sent: Tue, Jun 6, 2017 10:02 pm> Subject: [Coco] Basic09 versions>> For
>>>>>>> a
>>>>>>> long time I have known this, but have not been able to prove it.> WhenI
>>>>>>> first got into the CoCo it was a CoCo2 Korean model and OS-9 Level 1.>
>>>>>>> Ialso had the Level 1 Basic09. When I got my CoCo3 and OS-9 Level 2,>
>>>>>>> Icompared the two versions of Basic09. T
>>>>>>> here were only 3 differences.Level> 14K default buffer size01.00.00
>>>>>>> version number in the display text at the> top of the moduleCRC was not
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> same as Level 2 Basic09Level 28K default> buffer size01.00.01 version
>>>>>>> number in the display text at the top of the> moduleCRC was not the
>>>>>>> same as
>>>>>>> Level 1 Basic09I have never found a disk> image of the Level 1 Basic09
>>>>>>> disk. It was soldseparately from OS-9 Level 1.> I have found the Dragon
>>>>>>> version of Basic09Level 1 (version 01.00.00), but> it has a different
>>>>>>> display text from theCoCo version.I had all but given up> hope of ever
>>>>>>> finding a copy of the CoCo Basic09Level 1 disk (or an image).> Today I
>>>>>>> was
>>>>>>> thinking about it, and decided toso some searching. Lo and> behold, I
>>>>>>> found
>>>>>>> what appears to be a pristinecopy for sale on EBay. The> description
>>>>>>> says
>>>>>>> "untested", but the disk andmanual and box look brand new!> There are 3
>>>>>>> photos. The middle photo is acloseup of the disk in its sleeve.> The
>>>>>>> lower
>>>>>>> left portion of the exposeddisk shows the version number> 01.00.00.I
>>>>>>> want
>>>>>>> this! It is for sale for $89.99 or best offer, and the> shipping isonly
>>>>>>> $3.61. I have enough cash, but I don't have a credit card.> There are
>>>>>>> 5people watching it, and the time left is 19 days, 20 hours. No> one has
>>>>>>> madean offer yet. If I can get my friend to use his card, I am> going to
>>>>>>> buy ittoday. Once I have it, I will need to know if someone on> this
>>>>>>> list
>>>>>>> is herein Los Angeles and can make an image of the disk, and> possibly
>>>>>>> scan
>>>>>>> themanual without destroying it. Then I can add them to the> archive and
>>>>>>> wewill have the original Basic09 and manual to go with the> Level 1
>>>>>>> system.Wish me luck on getting it!-- WayneThe Structure of>
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