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 >Reply to Item    0873228                 93/12/03        18:44
 >From:   COCO@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU@INTERNET#
 >Sub:      Re: Copyrights and Copywr
 >From <@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU:COCO@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU> Sat Dec  4 04:47:17

 >Gee, I get to add abit of history :-)

And I get to correct it!  <grin - just kidding!!!>

 >Radio Shack does not and never will hold anything for the coco basic.

Microsoft has the original, and Microware owns the CoCo 3 patches.  Fair
enough.

 >Extended BASIC" code.  They over wrote the dload command in the ROM--it
 >never worked anyway--for the startup code.

DLOAD did work.  I don't know where this comes from.  There used to be a
program called "UPLOAD/BIN" that was the reverse side of dload.  I was
visiting my father once and didn't have a terminal program that did file
transfers so a guy used UPLOAD (required disk drive as I recall) to send me
one...  So, it did work...Microsoft just never put in a ULOAD command, which
would have been neat.

I wonder what the story behind DLOAD was?  Why did they add it?  (Wow.  Back
then, Microsoft hadn't even written PC-DOS yet!!!  What had they done at
this point in the time line?)

          Allen C. Huffman -/- Sub-Etha Software