[Coco] Disk drive

[KnudsenMJ at aol.com]

In a message dated 2/8/05 10:56:05 PM Eastern Standard Time,  
diegoba at adinet.com.uy writes:

I GOT  IT!!!   After +20 years wanting it, I have my first working floppy  
drive for my CoCo
Felicitaciones!  I still remember the day I got the first floppy drive  for 
my Coco -- cost me over $300, more than I'd paid for the computer!  But  the 
difference between cassette tape and floppy is just unbelievable.  I  hope 
someday you'll get a hard drive -- that step up is like going from tape to  floppy, 
too.

Today I  got a Commodore PC, and being a XT, came with an old 5 1/4 
floppy drive  that works perfect with my coco!
I paid $5 for the computer, and $15 for  shipping, a lot cheaper than 
trying to get an original CoCo  drive.
All but my first disk drive (I went thru about 5 of them) were scrounged  
from early PCs.  I still remember my first double-sided one.  BTW, if  your "new" 
drive has a head-load solenoid (makes a "click" whenever it first  starts 
turning), you can shut off power with a floppy still in the drive  and not worry 
about damaging the data.
 


Now,  to find another XT and get a 2 disk system :-)



Do that.  Two drives are SO much better than one.  --Mike  K.