John Harrell was a prolific writer/programmer who published most of his work
in 80 Micro. His stuff was always top-notch. I don't recall SETCOLOR. 80
Micro did eventually cover the Tandy 1000/2000, so he must have submitted
the program shortly after the 2000's release.
--Mike
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Hellige" <jhellige_at_earthlink.net>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 3:00 PM
Subject: SETCOLOR info found
> I was doing some reorganizing of my computer room (an ongiong
> project!) and I came across a note stuck inside of a box of disks,
> which I hadn't noticed before. One of my TRS-80 Model 2000's came
> from MISOSYS owner Roy Soltoff after it had sat around for a number
> of years after he didn't enter the Model 2000 market. He had bought
> if for a development system. Anyway, the note is from a John Harrell
> offering him a utility for the machine called SETCOLOR. He states
> that he had offered it to 80-Micro but that they weren't interested
> in it since they didn't have an interest in the MS-DOS world. He
> also gives considerable info on how the utility works. Basically it
> patches the IO.SYS file so that programs display a system-wide choice
> of colors for foreground, background, and high intensity versions of
> both. It's dated 29 March 1985. The disk was stuck behind my MIX-C
> and ED/ASM-86 disks.
>
> Jeff
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>
Received on Fri Apr 13 2001 - 14:42:27 BST