#: 14965 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
    13-Apr-92  03:37:00
Sb: #14328-#In memoriam
Fm: John Wight 76370,2100
To: Ian Hodgson 72177,1762 (X)

No, OS-9 and the COCO ARE NOT dead ;-). Perhaps the problem is that to leave a
message here, one has to pay $12.00 an hour. Read in one of the other sections
about the OS-9 Community Network. This is just one example of how alive the
COCO and OS-9 Community is, and it is cheaper than Compuserve to take advantage
of, even if you have to make a long distance call to a BBS. A part of the OS-9
Community Network is the Fidonet COCO and OS9 echos (Fidonet is an amateur
computer network of over 10,000 systems of all types world wide). On these
message areas there are between 20 to 40 messages everyday in both areas, and I
didn't even mention that there are COCO_CLUB and RIBBS echos as well. The cost
of Fidonet is next to nothing, and usually free to those who are just
exchanging messages, i.e., the cost of a phone call to a BBS. Being that many
COCO users are on a budget, I suspect that many have chosen the Fidonet or
other BBS alternatives of support instead of paying $12.00 an hour here...

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