[Coco] Which is better?

Jack Carpenter jmdlcar at yahoo.com
Sat Jul 7 20:24:02 EDT 2018


Right now I only a Coco2 and no other hardware. I want to go cheapest way because I'm on a tight fixed income @70. I am new to this. 

About 30 years ago I had a Coco3 with 512k multi pak and 2 floppy drive. I even had OS-9 2 software.
One problem with DW Coco is in one room and the PC is in another room.

Right now I am trying to get a Coco3.
 

    On Sunday, July 8, 2018, 12:05:50 AM GMT, Robert Gault <robert.gault at att.net> wrote:  
 
 Jack,

You clearly have a PC so the simplest thing for you to do is run an emulator such as VCC on your PC. 
You can use VCC with Drivewire, but even without Drivewire VCC supports both .dsk and .vhd drives 
(floppy images & hard drive images). That means you can easily learn/use both Disk Basic and 
OS-9/NitrOS-9 without any more hardware than you currently have.

Once you have used Basic and OS-9 for a while and develop projects that require more hardware, then 
you can decide to try and find a Coco, CocoSDC, or other Coco hardware devices.

Robert

Jack Carpenter via Coco wrote:
> I want something easy and when you plug it in it works with no problems. For me DW you need a Coco and PC but if it works better then CocoSDC then for that would be better. I am new to all of this that why I am asking all of you.
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