#: 18198 S11/OS9/6809 (Non-CoCo)
    28-May-93  17:59:31
Sb: Msg 18054 and Smoke
Fm: Ken Drexler 75126,3427
To: Doug, 72667,1433

Doug

I saw your message asking about Smoke Signal Broadcasting and Xmode.  SSB never
offered Xmode. I have a copy which I got out of the CoCo Level II utility set.
It seems to run properly on my SSB system although I do not use it a lot so
have not given it a through test.

SSB was around at least through Fall 1985 when I met its president at a
Microware seminar.  I tried to call it a year or so later and found the phone
had been disconnected.  That is the last I heard of the company.  It was never
very big and got rolled over by Big Blue.  (Before it left, it flirted with a
68000 system running Regulus, a UNIX knock off.)

I have two SSB Level II machines. One has died with some mysterious memory
problem. The other I use daily at my law office for two users. We use it for
work processing and legal time accounting.  It continues to be solid as a rock
and about as heavy.

It is good to know there are a other SSB users around. I figured we must be an
extinct breed.  (There are, however, several ex-users on here from time to
time.)

Ken