1 Mar
2013
1 Mar
'13
11:13 a.m.
>I'd use a COCO II computer. You don't need
to run the software. :)
On Fri, 1 Mar 2013, Mark Tapley wrote:
Maybe not for recording Win7,
That's merely
an iconic waste of resources
but for learning BASIC, this
turns out to be good advice. One from Cindy's warehouse (after taking
off the dusty top case and washing it and the keys, and buying an
RCA-to-"F"-connector adaptor for the video) has spent part of last
night and *all* of this morning (since before I got up until after
noon) teaching Extended Color Basic to my 12-year-old son.
WOOT.
Maybe I'm dreaming, but I may finally have found at least a partial
antidote to "MineCraft".
Fortunately, I already own a cassette recorder and cable and the
EDTASM cartridge, and Drivewire 3 with OS-9 images runs on our G3
iMac, so assuming that talks to the CoCo, he's got room to grow for a
while. I suppose I should try to get Drivewire 4 running on the iMac
At least the original models coulsd be trivially modified for composite
video out.
The floppy disk controller of the original Cocos is a WD 179x series and
easy to work with. Dr. Marty wrote some simple programs for transfewrring
files with 360K PC floppies.