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Re: I demand an answer!



"Leon Howell" <puritan_2076@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> > Demanding anything of anybody around here is intolerably rude, IMHO.
>
> Sorry, I didn't mean for it to be. I really do have more manners than
> that; maybe I should have put a ";)" or a ":)" in the subject line.
> I'm just trying to get to the bottom of this issue, and,
> *no*offence*intended*, after some time on bit listserv.coco and
> comp.os.cpm, I'm almost shocked at the lack of technical knowledge
> here. Maybe it's the nature of OS-9 (not mac os version 9) and CP/M.
> The less of a comfortable user interface you have, the more likely you
> are to take youre os apart and play with it. Prodos is often menu
> driven, Apple II I/O is slot-specific, etc., so we don't have to do
> quite so much programming and configuring. Still, we have our basic
> command line...:)

You're digging yourself deeper.

The HD20 is a truly oddball obsolete Mac harddrive. Why anyone would waste
their time interfacing this to an Apple 2 is beyond me. When there was a
market for Apple2 smartport harddrives such products existed. What possessed
the Coco and CP/M communities to support this harddrive?

> >What's the most annoying thing on Usenet?
>
> me?

No, as per Scott's sig, that would have to be top posting.

- Liam