🚀 go-pugleaf

Wow, did I ever stir up the nest!

Ok, responses mostly combined to save net bandwidth:

Scott McGee: These drives currently go for $300 mail order and the cassettes
             are about $15.  The non-parallel port versions are about $250.

             PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE find out how many OS-9 users are out there.
             This info would be good for everybody, from the embedded 68008
             to the 68040 power users to the CoCo ists.

Paul Jerkins: I plan to fake around the lack of SBF by writing an SCF driver
              but doing all the communication with GETSTT/SETSTT calls to
              bypass the file manager.  Unless, of course, there is a
              public domain SBF floating around out there ... or someone
              want to write one!
                  I realize this kind of violates the OS-9 religion but I
              would rather have it work and be ugly than shell out kilobucks
              for SBF.

Colin Mckay: I had not realized that the UG had reorganized.  I am (I think)
             a UG member and I hereby officially offer to chair the OS-9
             QIC committee and request authority to act on behalf of the
             OS-9 UG to pursue this member, except that I will not bind the
             UG contractually or financially.

Carl Boll:   I am sending you some E-mail saying the same thing.  <click>
             There it goes - hope I remembered the stamp  :-)

Knudsen from Hell: Point taken.  I can see using a QIC tape system to backup
                   the memory of a ROM based system (like a computer-
                   controlled milling machine).

Peter Edwards: Wow! you work for Cray!  Cray Research is the split-off
               headed by Seymore himself, right?  I like some of Cray's
               ideas.  Like how higher level languages are the Computer
               Scientists way of slowing down all CPUs so they run the
               same speed as a PDP-11/20.

I'll keep everyone updated on how things are going.  I'm eagerly looking
forward to those standards from the QIC committee...

   -Rich
   RICHKOTTKE@delphi.com


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