Re: BBS software - ACOS / MACOS?

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message kPKdneocReBX9_XVnZ2dnUVZ_jqdnZ2d@comcast.com">news:kPKdneocReBX9_XVnZ2dnUVZ_jqdnZ2d@comcast.com...
> a2aviator@gmail.com wrote:
> > Well, hence my comment, depending on price- just open it up for source
> > to those interested.
> > 
> > Just so that it is 'available' in some official capacity. To bring it
> > all together again, would have been interesting, to say the least.
> > 
> > I had a lot of stuff invested in the DOS 3.3 version of ACOS too, and
> > time spent on modifying - upgrades and moved new drivers over from the
> > ProDOS releases. I hung on hard and long to the DOS 3.3 side of things
> > until about a year after the IIgs came out.
> > 
> > One day, someone came over and noticed that my hard drive booted into
> > ProDOS.. yup. I copied all the stuff off the 400K volumes and
> > repartitioned the thing. Swapped over hard. Couldn't handle dealing
> > with ShrinkIt files that had to be broken up to fit on floppies to
> > move them, any longer. Too much hassle. That was it. Done.
> 
> Yes, DOS was pretty close to heaven for 140K floppies, but as
> capacity went up to 800K and then to hard drives, ProDOS was the
> only practical approach.


And knowing this they even gave us conversion programs for those 
DOS programs that could be converted, is this not correct? 

Bill Garber from GS-Electronics
http://www.garberstreet.com