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   On 1/4/2026 4:12 PM, Jim Wilkins wrote:   
   > "Person Familiar With the Matter"  wrote in message   
   > news:10jehn8$29prc$1@dont-email.me...   
   >   
   > I remember occasionally reading Pournelle's column in Byte Magazine back   
   > in the '80s and '90s.  I briefly wrote a column in Computer Shopper on   
   > the subject of the TRS 80 Color Computer.  I liked Pournelli and Mondo   
   > 2000 magazine's Xandor Speaks column.  I was a fan of Terrence McKenna   
   > (spelling?) who wrote articles dealing with his experiences taking   
   > Ayahuasca in the Amazon jungles and peyote in the Southwestern United   
   > States, somehow melding his drug experiences with emerging technology.   
   > --------------------------------   
   > I was very impressed by the Color Computer's 6809 CPU and instruction   
   > set but was already too committed to Intel architecture in my slowly   
   > growing wire wrapped home-brew computer. I used the CoCo's Motorola   
   > graphics chip with built-in character generator when I acquired a CRT to   
   > replace the Teletype.   
   >   
      
   The Motorolla 6809B CPU was used on the early Space Shuttles with   
   Microware's OS-9 operating system -- the same combo used by Tandy on the   
   Color Computer II. I programmed Servo Track Writers using MASM   
   (Microsoft Assembler) and 6809 processors when I worked for Miniscribe /   
   Maxtor, where they built hard drives for IBM AT personal computers. I   
   still have a Color Computer II, but lost the RF interface needed to   
   connect it to an NTSC television, which I no longer have.  It's sort of   
   like having a 78 rpm phonograph with no records to play on it, LOL.   
      
   --   
   "The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of   
   doubt, while the stupid people are full of confidence.” —Charles Bukowski   
      
   "When guns are outlawed, only foreign invaders and the government   
   officials that invited them in will have guns."   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)