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From: mckay@pur-ee.UUCP (McKay)
Newsgroups: net.micro.6809
Subject: Upgrade a Coco or replace it?
Message-ID: <2529@pur-ee.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 14-Jan-85 12:22:00 EST
Article-I.D.: pur-ee.2529
Posted: Mon Jan 14 12:22:00 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 15-Jan-85 02:34:31 EST
Organization: Electrical Engineering Department , Purdue University
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<* bug busters *>

Here's a new topic worthy of a little debate:

The setting:

I've got a Coco with two floppies and have been running OS-9 for a few
months now.  I like OS-9 a lot.  It's intelligently designed (for the
most part) and gives me a low cost UNIX-like environment to do some
home-hacking in. But...

The problem:

I'm finding I'd like a bit more in the mass storage area and a real
serial port for my terminal (sitting next to the Coco).  A little more
CPU speed wouldn't hurt either.

The question:

Should I upgrade the Coco or start over (somewhat) with another machine?

A few constraints on this:  First, this must be a fairly low cost
operation, but I am ready to spend about the cost of a harddisk for the
coco and few other pieces of hardware; say $2000 tops.  Second, I'd like
to hang on to as much of my current hardware as I can.  That means the
printer (a serial printer nothing special), a terminal (IBM 3101, a
semi-smart terminal) and the floppies (if possible, they're 35track RS
look-a-likes).

So far, I'm convinced upgrading is the answer, but maybe you can
convince me otherwise.  Is there a new (or unknown to me) machine that's
cheap and runs OS-9 better (define it as you will) than the Coco?
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   Dwight Douglas McKay, ECN Software Support                          _\/
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