#: 10351 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
    19-Apr-91  22:37:15
Sb: Monochrome boot
Fm: Ian Hodgson 72177,1762
To: All

The addition of a second CoCo III with a monochrome monitor (the other one has
a CM8) has made it evident that I would like to attack whatever module has the
initial palette and sets montype during boot so I could change things. So, the
question is: what module(s)? What offset? Too bad; when I graduated to the CM8
a couple of years back I turfed all the window descriptors and boot files I had
so painstakingly set up for monochrome. Now that I need them back, they're not
there, sigh. Anybody know where to look?

Oh, a second question. While I was at it I got a no-halt controller and 3 in 1
board. I presume STERM is the way to go? DL'd it the other night but still
haven't cobbled together a power supply and DB25 to 10 pin header cable so
haven't trid it.

And a comment for those who may be looking for a printer: like many others I
was attracted to the Star NX1000 a couple of years back and bought one. Great -
at first. But it has the world's shortest printhead life (like some cars where
you replace the brake disks every second pad change you apparently need a new
printhead about every second ribbon on the NX1000). In addition to the one I
have here, we have 4 at work and they are all the same, so beware of low cost
as your only consideration. Symptoms of dead printhead: Grey (rather than
black) characters, even with a new ribbon, and poor dot registration that makes
the characters look fuzzy. I have 3 other (older) printers and there is no
problem with printheads even after 10 years in one case so I suggest you
consider the price of printhead replacement as part of the cost of the Star.