knudsen (12/14/82)
To Scott Weisner: Your mail path is too long to trust, but you can see big Frank Hogg Labs ads in any current issue of 80-Microcomputing magazine, for sale at any hobby-comp shop for $3. Their OS9, Flex, Forth language, etc all run on the Color Computer provided, of course, you have at least one disk (the Radio Shack controller & drives). Helps to have the Shack's "32K" RAM, which is really 64 K. To run Flex, etc., you poke the CoCo's SAM chip so that the upper 32K maps into the rest of RAM instead of BASIC & the game slot (guess they don't use Shack's disk firmware either). There are some S-50 survivors from the 6800 era who sell 6809 systems that look good -- say so if you want to hear more from the Net. I say, unless you're pinching pennies and are willing to do some hard & software hacking, get the 32K CoCo, its disk, give Frank his cash and enjoy. Mail-order the CoCo (ads in above magazine), don't buy it at local Shack. mike k
kh (12/14/82)
I thought that the 32K Color Computers used "half-bad" 64K chips. If so, then wouldn't there be problems in using all 64K for OS-9 or Uniflex?