21 Apr
1997
21 Apr
'97
7:59 a.m.
On Mon, 21 Apr 1997, Roger Merchberger wrote:
Whoo-hoo! A man with a mission! Hey, if you're
ever in the EUP of Michigan,
stop in for a homebrew! As I have T1 at work as well, that's why I like the
Zip. Do you realize just how *much* stuff for classic computers there is
out there? I've filled my zip twice with stuff for my CoCo's, my Tandy 200
& 600 laptops, the Atari 800, and the Atari 1040ST machine I'm getting in a
month or so. (that should still be old enough for this list... shouldn't it?)
Got most of the Color Computer, 1/3/4, 100 and ST material floating
around, as far as I know. And TI/99.
I just read on a CoCo newsgroup that someone has
successfully interfaced a
SCSI Zip drive to their CoCo (the stock SCSI boards need modification to
work with a zip... but it's only a matter of time, now!) Also, I plan on
getting a SCSI board for my ST, so then the zip will have worked with a
Mac, 2 PC's, a Sun Netra Solaris box, the ST (when it's ready) and the CoCo
(if the guy publishes the mods / driver patches.) Cain't do dat with a
Parallel!
At some point, I will undoubtedly get a SCSI Zip. It hasn't been a
priority _yet_.
AAMAF, a lot of these SCSI technologies available now
have the ability to
breath new life into these older machines... as there is now an IDE
interface available for the CoCo as well! If anyone's interested in this,
send me an e-mail and I'll get you more info.
Gimme the info.
BTW, what Tandy Xenix box do you have? Been wanting a
16b or a 6000... but
can't find those very easily up here in the boonies!
6000 HD. Cost me a dollar at last years Trenton Computer Festival. I
had to replace the hard drive. Just _happened_ to have an unused 40MB
MFM drive for some reason.