dwhitney@uok.UUCP (07/21/84)
#N:uok:20500010:000:599 uok!dwhitney Jul 21 11:46:00 1984 Could someone at trsvax, or anyone who knows, for that matter, tell me when TRSDOS 6.2 will be available? I have been pestering the people at the local computer centers at the rate of about once a week or so, and every time I ask them about 6.2 they try to give me the 6.1.2 release they sent out by mail some months ago....Also, could someone give me some insight into a supposed "Model 200" with 750K bubble memory and flip-screen, to be released in November? (This is a RUMOR..and I am asking you folks a trsvax to give the straight scoop............) ctvax!uokvax!uok!dwhitney David Whitney
hood@uiucuxc.UUCP (07/24/84)
#R:uok:20500010:uiucuxc:33700006:000:54 uiucuxc!hood Jul 23 20:33:00 1984 Are you aware that the 6.2 version will not be free ?
mjg@ecsvax.UUCP (07/24/84)
I would like to add my plea for that too, also does anyone know of a patch to TRSDOS 6.anything to make it work with double sided drives?. As to a model 200 - you don't seriously expect trsvax to rise to your bait do you?. After all, much of Tandys success has been due to keeping a tight security cover on new releases until they had them in the warehouse and could deliver. Look what happened to Osborne when they announced a new model coming in 6 months time, everybody said why buy now - if I wait I can get a much better model, result - bankruptcy. Mike Gingell Raleigh NC ....decvax!mcnc!ecsvax!mjg
dwhitney@uok.UUCP (07/25/84)
#R:uok:20500010:uok:20500011:000:262 uok!dwhitney Jul 25 10:23:00 1984 Yes, I understand the manual+disk will cost $39.95. I also hear that TRSDOS 6.3 will be out early next year. It obviously never stops.... Also, I hear rumblings of a thing called a Model 5A....trsvax, are you listening?? dwhitney ctvax!uokvax!uok!dwhitney
uhclem@trsvax.UUCP (08/02/84)
#R:uok:20500010:trsvax:70700016:000:1411
trsvax!uhclem Aug 2 13:11:00 1984
<Arg>
Oops! I left out a tiny bit of info in my last note on booting TRSDOS
6 on a double sided diskette. In addition to the stuff I mentioned,
you have to make sure that SYS0/SYS is all on side 1 (one based) of
the diskette. In TRSDOS 6.0.x and 6.1.x, the driver cannot cope with
that file existing on side 2 or spanning onto side 2. One can cure
this by building the double sided diskette using these steps.
1. Format a disk as a double sided diskette.
2. Give the command BACKUP SYS0/SYS:s :d (S)
Don't use the COPY command for this. BACKUP also
copies the system boot track when it detects that it
is moving SYS0/SYS. If there are no flaws, SYS0/SYS
should end up on cylinder 1, head 1. (You can use the
FREE command to check this.)
3. Then type BACKUP $:s :d (S,I,NEW)
This will copy the remaining files to the disk wherever
they will fit.
< This information is provided by an individual and is not nor should be
construed as being provided by Radio Shack or Tandy Corp. Radio
Shack/Tandy Corp has no obligation to support the information provided
in any way. Since color dyes may, in time change, this film will not
be replaced for, or otherwise warranted against, any change in color.
Batteries not included, some assembly required.
(Oops, wrong disclaimer.) >
Frank Durda IV
@ <trsvax!uhclem>spl@mgweed.UUCP (Steve Lorenz) (08/25/84)
The salesman at my local RS Computer store told me today that the release date for TRSDOS 6.2 would be Sept. 15. Has any one got the new Computer Catalog yet???
2141smh@aluxe.UUCP (henning) (08/26/84)
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From the keys of Steve Henning, AT&T Bell Labs, Reading, PA aluxe!2141smh
"TRSDOS 6.2 is available separately (catalog number 26-316) for $39.95.
Ed Juge, Director of Market Planning, Radio Shack, Fort Worth, TX"
from Page 12 of "80 Micro", October 1984 in a letter to the editor.
By the way what is so great about 6.2. Is it any better than 6.0 PLUS
from Micro-Systems. I have 6.0 PLUS and it is great. It restores all
those neat things that were on 1.3 plus it has a disk zapper, a directory
zapper, disk map, unkiller, basic sort command, global editing, label
addressing, cross referencer, III to 4 converter, input at ..., and
editor enhancements like duplicate line.
It lists for $49.95 but is discounted for $39.50.