neals@tekigm.UUCP (Neal Sedell) (01/21/86)
> > On Compuserve, it was mentioned that the new version > of OS9 will not work with FHL O-PAK......... What gives? I asked my friendly local OS9 fan type RS salesman to order me an update at least two months ago. He said it was orderable and gave me the usual response that is would take about two weeks. I know he wants his ASAP but we're both still waiting... Reminds me of the time I updated to 1.00.01 or whatever it was. Even after getting a notice in the mail from RS about it's being available it took a heck of a lot longer than two weeks!!! No wonder OS9 isn't going more places :-( Does anybody really have version 2? If so, when did you get it??? I have been putting of doing anything with my COCO until it gets here and pretty soon it'll be like starting from scratch. Grumble grumble grumble..... Neal "at least I didn't have to prepay" Sedell [zehntel, uw-beaver, reed, hp-pcd, hplabs, decvax]!tektronix!tekigm!neals
sjt@sb6.UUCP (SIDNEY THOMPSON) (01/25/86)
I have had a pre-release of 2.0.0 for several months now. It does exist and does have the problems mentioned by others of not turning off the motors on Johnson's utilities. (I still use them so I can read and write standard disk and use double sided 80 track drives, this is the only way I know to get nearly enough space.) The official version is supposed to be in the mail, but then the person who said that is no longer in that department at Tandy. The only serious problem is that the keyboard map is different from 1.0.1 and caused some problems with special keys Sidney Thompson
ecs110w020@ucdavis.UUCP (Mark Nagel) (01/28/86)
Sidney Thompson writes in <63@ucdavis.UUCP> tekigm.655 <177@sb6.UUCP>: > > I have had a pre-release of 2.0.0 for several months now. It does > exist and does have the problems mentioned by others of not turning > off the motors on Johnson's utilities. (I still use them so I can > read and write standard disk and use double sided 80 track drives, > this is the only way I know to get nearly enough space.) > > ... > > Sidney Thompson I have had os9 ver: 2.00.00 for a couple of weeks now. The new version of SDisk is also available from D.P. Johnson and is it slick! It allows you to boot up the system at 6ms step rate, it automatically configures a disk device descriptor to read a 35 or 40 track disk even in an 80 track drive by double stepping. There is a command to dynamically change a device descriptor to coco format or standard format or any of several other formats. It is fantasmablastic! <*** Mark Nagel ***> ...!{ucbvax,lll-crg,dual}!ucdavis!deneb!u557676751ea (UUCP)