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Al says:

> 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?)

Well, when I was in High School, I went to a lot of UIL Calculator and
Number Sense competitions, and I remember visiting this little school
outside of Crockett, Texas, in a tiny, tiny town called Latexo, where we
took the tests in a room that had a bunch of those Hybrid Coco1 F-boards
(with the Coco 1 style white case and the not-so chiclet keyboard) all
hooked up to some kind of LAN controller (a single box next to a disk-based
Coco set-up).  I got one of the guys to show me how they did stuff -- the
disk-based system acted as some kind of manual file server, where the teacher
(facilitator) sent stuff to each of the computers, where the students
each typed DLOAD (!) and got it, pretty fast as I recall...

Anyone else know of any set-ups like these?  Possibly so that we can get
those cool old (all chips socketed) Coco 1F's and the LAN controllers?
Latexo sold theirs off years ago...

-Tim