1 Mar
2013
1 Mar
'13
10:56 a.m.
At 12:00 -0600 3/1/13, Ben wrote:
I'd use a COCO II computer. You don't need to
run the software. :)
Ben.
Maybe not for recording Win7, 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
...
For reference:
http://www.cloud9tech.com/
Cassette recorder/cable (and many other goodies)
http://www.frontiernet.net/~mmarlette/Cloud-9/Software/DriveWire3.html
DriveWire 3, runs on the iMac but haven't tested communications yet
https://sites.google.com/site/drivewire4/
DriveWire 4, not running for me on Mac OS X.4
http://www.altex.com/F-Female-to-RCA-Male-Adapter-7530-P140726.aspx
Adapts channel 3 RF-encoded video from CoCo 2 RCA jack to "F" connector
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1 Mar
1 Mar
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.
11:55 a.m.
New subject: Learning
Personally, I think the IBM 1620 is a great machine on which to teach
programming. Decimal (none of that nasty binary, hex vs. octal..),
absolutely consistent instruction length (12 digits: 2 opcode, 5 for
each of the two addresses), variable word length (none of this "how many
decimal digits can 32 bits store?". You want a 5,000 digit number?
Fine--it can do it.
No visible registers--it's all memory-to-memory. I/O is very
straightforward (return the carriage on the typewriter, type a number...).
You can type your machine-language program in on the console, hit
"release" and watch it run.
Dijkstra hated the machine, but lots of people learned to program on it.
--Chuck
12:28 p.m.
Way to go! Amazing how much of this old dusty stuff still runs!
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 ...
For reference:
http://www.cloud9tech.com/
Cassette recorder/cable (and many other goodies)
http://www.frontiernet.net/~mmarlette/Cloud-9/Software/DriveWire3.html
DriveWire 3, runs on the iMac but haven't tested communications yet
https://sites.google.com/site/drivewire4/
DriveWire 4, not running for me on Mac OS X.4
http://www.altex.com/F-Female-to-RCA-Male-Adapter-7530-P140726.aspx
Adapts channel 3 RF-encoded video from CoCo 2 RCA jack to "F"
connector
--
- Mark 210-379-4635
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Large Asteroids headed toward planets
inhabited by beings that don't have
technology adequate to stop them:
Think of it as Evolution in Fast-Forward.
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