[Coco] Re: [Color Computer] Floppy drives on E-bay

[Steve Ostrom]

Jan Vanden Bossche wrote:


>Hallo

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>From: "glenvdb" <glenvdb at hotmail.com>

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>>Wow almost all of the floppy drives for the CoCo are over a

>>hundred dollars US now! Too rich for my blood (HEE HEE).

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>That is ridiculous. These drives are 100% standard units, with their own

>power supply.

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I understand that 360KB floppy drives are very scarce now.  If anyone 
knows of a supply of new or used units, I would really like to know 
about it.  I've done a lot of searching with Google and have found some 
supplies, but the cost is over $100 in most cases.  I'm not surprised 
that these Coco FD's are going for high bids.  The last time I talked to 
Mark M. about floppy drives, his supply was almost exhausted.  Hopefully 
an inexpensive supply will resurface.  I still use my floppy drive quite 
a bit.  I have two Cloud-9 hard drive systems on my two Coco setups, but 
I still need the floppy drives to transfer my Coco disks to the hard 
drive.  I'm also still buying Coco software on eBay, items which I don't 
own and want for my collection.  These still need to be backed up the HD.


>The only thing really important is the disk-controller. And you have to know

>how to hook up te other drives, of course. But that's easy to find out.

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>>This guy is stockpiling them, or trying to corner the market.

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>Or he's a genius and he knows something we don't, or he's a fool. I don't

>think that these systems will ever be as valuable as e.g. and Altair 8800 or

>an Apple I.

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>>-Glen

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>Greetings from the TyRannoSaurus

>Jan-80

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