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From: knudsen@ihnss.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: 6809 newsgroup
Message-ID: <1677@ihnss.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 9-Sep-83 19:34:34 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep  9 19:34:34 1983
Date-Received: Sun, 11-Sep-83 05:04:09 EDT
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I strongly support the creation of a 6809 system newsgroup.
I usse a Coco, but discourage net.coc since (1) snobs consider
the Coco a toy/game, (2) the Coco has nothing in common with the
Z80 TRS models (black & white trash-80s?) except disk drive hardware,
and (3) we want to pick up all those users of FLEX and OS-9 and FORTH
on the GIMIX, SSB, SWTP, and other SS-50 machines, plus
(4) a company (forget the name, sorry) is about to start selling
OS-9 for the APPLEs with a 6809 plug-in board.

With Radio Shack and Apple owners behind it, OS-9 may finally give
CP/m what it deserves.

One newsgroup can serve both 6809 and OS-9, since there is no other
micro that can run OS-9.  There is exactly one system under $2000 ($3000?)
built around a 6809 -- under $800 with a disk, and that's the Coco.

	Can't wait -- mike k