[Coco] Re: [Color Computer] Tandy Drives in general

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 28 January 2005 09:55, Dave wrote:
>Some questions regarding Tandy Drives and please bear with me as I'm
>re-acquainting myself with this equipment....(still kicking myself
>on slling my original CoCo 1 setup in order to purchase a 386)
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>>From what I've read in the threads, I should be able to do the
>following:
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>1- Purchase a stock PC case / PS with four 5 1/4 bays.
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>2- Install four 320K old style style drives.
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You can do this, but the drives are 360k for ds 40 trackers :)

>3- Only one Tandy controller is required. (have a spare 501)
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>4- Cabling seems to be an issue, all help welcome........

Exchange the missing teeth connectors on a tandy cable for connectors 
that have all contacts, then set the drive jumpers for the drives 
correct address.  This works for the first 3 drives if they are 
double sided drives (rsbasic won't see the second side unforch), and 
some cobbling on the 4th drive can be done to use the sidee selection 
line as the 4th drives address bit.  That won't work very well uner 
os9/nitros9 since it does do double sided drives.

Those cable connectors seem to have disappeared from the stocks at the 
shack, so you'll probably have to find a parts house that does have 
them.  They will be called 40 pin IDC connectors most of the time.

>Would this would be an "ideal" setup for day to day use with a CoCo?

Not too bad, until you get the urge to put a hard drive on it.  
They're very handy.

>Cheers Dave
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