For reasons unknown to us Sean Dennis said thus to mark lewis:

 SD> Yep, it was OS9.  There's a BBS system for OS9 that a friend
 SD> has somewhere. OS9 really made the CoCo fly.

 Indeed it did!! Shucks, add a multipack interface, a burke and burke hard
drive controller, and a rs232 interface to use a hayes compatible modem and
you had the world by the tail.  Enter a little goodie called Multi-View and
you had a point and click icon user interface BEFORE Microsoft came out
with windows.  Add to that OS/9 for the CoCo was a multi user multi tasking
OS on an 8 bit machine.

 Twas my first experience with computers.  Ah those were the days!! Oh
yeah, and the long distance phone calls via the modem to download files and
drivers got really expensive at times. 


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