[Coco] FD-502 floppy

[Steve Ostrom]

KnudsenMJ at aol.com wrote:

> 
>In a message dated 2/10/05 11:07:28 PM Eastern Standard Time,  
>jimhrubik at earthlink.net writes:
>
>Mike, if  it's a 502, it's a DS DD drive, and under OS9 you can use it 
>as such, back  side and all with the right descriptor.  No mods 
>necessary.  If  it's like my son's 502, the power plug for the second 
>drive ( and the  floppy cable connector) will let you plug in a 1.4M 3.5 
>as the second  drive.  If there are no jumpers on the 3.5, you may have 
>to do the  twisty thing in the middle of the cable.  I had to use a 
>power  adapter to put the 3.5 in my FD500 case, but again, no mods were 
>necessary  to the floppy cable on any of my drives as long as the drives 
>had  jumpers.
>
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>
>OK, good.  Sounds like Tandy got completely away from their  non-standard 
>ways of doing things, when they put out this setup.
> 
>By that time, I had long since gone to 3rd party drives, and was using my  
>big Sears Craftsman vise to put "real" connectors on those Tandy cables  :-)
>--Mike K.
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I couldn't find this drive at first on the Electronics Plus directory, 
but it showed up by searching for Tandy.  Total cost with shipping and 
handling is $97.12.  It's new, in-box equipment.  I guess it's about the 
same price as some of the used Coco drives are selling for now on eBay.

-- Steve --