[Coco] 80 track disk access under RSDOS

[Kevin Diggs]

Hi,

	Because the original drives were single sided did not preclude them
from designing some expandability into the ROM.

					kevin

Neil Morrison wrote:

> 

> ----- Original Message -----

> From: "Bob Devries" <bdevries at gil.com.au>

> 

> > > Either way, RS *could* have given us 360K floppies from the beginning,

> > right?

> >

> > No, they could not have, since the first disk drives THEY sold were only

> 35

> > track and single-sided.

> 

> And the pulleys used to fall off the motors! I know they sold for $800 - I

> wonder if R/S paid more than $3 for the drive?

> 

> Neil

> 

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