[Coco] Microware's MM/1

Ken Flanagan kflan at selonia.com
Sun Jul 7 22:54:51 EDT 2019


I hope someone takes up the offer. I never had a chance to use one and
would love to try it out on an emulator.

On Sun., Jul. 7, 2019, 2:21 p.m. Charles Allison via Coco, <
coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:

> Alan,
>
> I wish I was closer to you I would pick up the MM/1 in a heartbeat!
>
> Chuck
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jul 7, 2019, at 14:24, Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:
>
> >> On Jul 7, 2019, at 2:21 PM, Charles Allison via Coco <
> coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Alan,
> >>
> >> I wanted an MM/1 so bad. not good enough to make an emulator though.
> >>
> >> Nice save!
> >>
> >> Chuck Allison
> >
> > For CoCo OS-9 users, it was SO GOOD. K-Windows was very much like OS-9
> Level 2 windowing commands (text mode, overlay windows and such). But, you
> got a real mouse on top of it. Super easy to port code from BASIC09 and C
> with only minor changes.
> >
> > I never dove into any of the advanced K-Windows features, though.
> >
> > When I moved, I had little room, so I dug my MM/1 out of the storage
> unit first and used it for BBSing my first month in town. It was just nice
> to have an “all in one” plus monitor for that, versus my spread out CoCo
> system at the time.
> >
> >        — A
> >
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