Replying to a message of Greg Goodwin to William Schaub:

 GG> William Schaub -> mark lewis wrote:

 WS>> Sorry about that. I don't know how I managed to mis-read that.
 WS>> I am a coco guy I don't do much with my coco today, although I do
 WS>> want to do more with NitrOS9 and the new drivewire4 software that
 WS>> came out recently.

 GG> So please tell us about bit more about these and what they can do, or
 GG> what you find interesting about them.

Not familiar with cocos, but the old CP/M microcomputers (8080/Z80 CPU)
can do most anything the hottest PCs can do - except graphics.  They can
even do Fidonet - an acquaintance wrote a Fidonet package for CP/M based
machines, mainly because 'they' said it couldn't be done.  Note that while
they *can* do most things, it will take a lot longer than most folks are used
to.

I put myself through college using a Heathkit H-89 with *six* 5.25"
floppy drives
(3 hard sector 90KB SSSD each and 3 soft sector 760KB DSDD each) and no HD.
I had the SuperCalc spreadsheet (which I upgraded to Quattro v2.0 for $99 when
Borland offered their then $399 product for $99 and the manual or distribution 
disk from any competitor's product - I must not have been the only one that did
that because they changed their offer to restrict it to DOS based products, this was
before Windows).  I wrote a spreadsheet that did linear regression functions, it took
a while to run but it worked.

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