jim@umcp-cs.UUCP (Jim Williams) (11/19/84)
I have become interested in the 6809 and OS-9. I went to look at a Radio Shack color computer last weekend and boy what a dissapointment! How do you do anything with that keyboard? I didn't see any control keys or any other way to access the large number of characters missing from the keyboard. I can program in C on THIS?? Have I missed something obvious? What of other 6809 machines? Digital Research Computers of Texas has a Single Board Computer kit that they offer OS-9 for. Anybody know anything about it? Thanks. Jim Williams seismo!umcp-cs!jim ihnp4!netword!jim jim@maryland.ARPA -- Time Lord
scott@uwvax.UUCP (Scott Aschenbach) (11/20/84)
> > I have become interested in the 6809 and OS-9. I went to > look at a Radio Shack color computer last weekend and boy what a > dissapointment! How do you do anything with that keyboard? I didn't > see any control keys or any other way to access the large number > of characters missing from the keyboard. I can program in C on THIS?? > Have I missed something obvious? > What of other 6809 machines? Digital Research Computers of Texas > has a Single Board Computer kit that they offer OS-9 for. Anybody > know anything about it? > Thanks. > > Jim Williams > seismo!umcp-cs!jim > ihnp4!netword!jim > jim@maryland.ARPA > -- > Time Lord With OS-9, the clear key is used to generate the rest of the characters. clear-1 becomes "|", clear-( becomes "[", and clear A through Z generate control A through control Z. Most of the alternates are related, so they'r easy to remember. Sure you can program in C with this. Microware's C (sold through Radio Shack and elsewhere) is great. I still have a tiny C, but one day... The Radio Shack Color Computer (coco) is a great buy for the price. For $600 and your TV you should get a working OS-9 system (sans printer). If you can afford something more expensive, great. -- W. Scott Aschenbach @ wisconsin ...!{allegra,heurikon,ihnp4,seismo,ucbvax,uwm-evax}!uwvax!scott scott@wisc-rsch.arpa
sdyer@bbncca.ARPA (Steve Dyer) (11/21/84)
I wouldn't think that anyone would complain about the CoCo keyboard
anymore, now that RS provides one with a standard-touch. There have
been three CoCo keyboards: "chiclet", semi-acceptable low-profile keys,
and their latest, a full-travel square-key keyboard. Granted, it still
isn't a full-ASCII standard (no ESC, control keys) but you can generate
the entire ASCII character set under OS-9, with very little trouble.
Given Radio Shack OS-9, Frank Hogg Labs' "O-Pak" for hi-res 51 column
characters, a screen editor like "DynaStar" and the Microware C compiler,
you can have a VERY reasonable C development system for less than $800.
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/Steve Dyer
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