[Coco] Basic09 versions

Wed Jun 7 02:02:01 EDT 2017

I'll let you know if I hear back from him.  He was an encouragement to 
me in the early OS9 days and he and another fellow beta-tested SuperComm 
and kept a list of features and ideas they thought would be good 
additions.  I only made it to a couple of the Daltrug meetings over in 
Dallas back in the mid/late 80s but Lee and I communicated fairly often 
when I was living in that area.

Dave

On 6/7/2017 12:54 AM, L. Curtis Boyle wrote:
> It would be interesting to see how he is doing. I haven’t talked to him much since he moved. Him and David Wordell (?) used to come up to the Fest together.
> (I hope I am remember that name right).
>
> L. Curtis Boyle
> curtisboyle at sasktel.net
>
>
>
>> On Jun 6, 2017, at 11:46 PM, Dave Philipsen <dave at davebiz.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> 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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