Good afternoon, group.   
      
   I actually have a couple of things, the first one being administrivia.   
      
   Does anyone know of a public NNTP server with comp.sys.tandy?   
      
   Ok, the main thing.  I'm working on a reconstruction of the source code for   
   LS-DOS 6.3.1A for the Model II.  I'd really like to touch base with Frank   
   Durda IV about it, but none of the e-mails I've tried work.  I have so far   
   extracted the bootloader from    
   the single-density 128 bytes-per-sector track 0, and have made great progress   
   in disassembling and commenting that portion.  The progress has been enough to   
   where, using this disassembly in-hand and working through the debugger found   
   in MESS I was able    
   to find the bug that was preventing MESS >0.147 from booting LS-DOS 6.3.1A (it   
   boiled down to improper detection and handling of deleted data address marks   
   as used on the LS-DOS directory track).  Current SVN of MESS will once again   
   boot LS-DOS 6.3.1    
   most of the time (there is a condition which I'm still tracing that causes the   
   keyboard to be dead on boot; if the initial LS-DOS splash screen flashes on   
   screen, goes away, then comes back the keyboard will work, but if it comes   
   straight up it won't).   
      
   So, Frank, if you happen to be reading this, I would love to ask you a couple   
   of questions if you don't mind.   
      
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