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From: p_macdonald@eden.DEC (PRO Workstations Pubs)
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Subject: C128
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Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 09:19:20 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 22 09:19:20 1985
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I too managed to find a C128 at Caldor's in Brighton, MA. They had
two left in stock. Other Caldor's in the region were out of stock.
No 1571 or 1902. They wrote a raincheck for those.

Like Pat, I am impressed with the quality of the hardware, and the
completeness of the supplied manual. They did an excellent job with
that book!

C64 mode works fine, and I haven't encountered the "Letter Q" bug that
some people on Compuserve were complaining about. My machine language
programs work fine in C64 mode. I even tried a few C64 BASIC programs
in 128 mode, and they worked fine. So converting non-machine language
programs from 64 to 128 mode for the purpose of taking advantage of the
7.0 BASIC should be no problem. CP/M boots fine on the 1541. Not the 15
seconds claimed on the 1571, but not excrutiatingly long. Wish they had
supplied TERM for CP/M. Dunno how I will be able to get MEX downloaded
to the 128 without it. You have to use a diskette formatted with the
CP/M FORMAT command (not COPYSYS as the manual states). I downloaded
MEX740.COM in 64 mode but it can't be PIP or executed from CP/M. If anyone
has a copy of MEX740.COM and MEX.HLP loaded onto a CP/M formatted
diskette, I should would appreciate a copy.

Paul MacDonald
617-493-3439