[Coco] Somehow I doubt this 'disk drive' will work with thecoco...

[Joel Ewy]

There was an article in Make magazine about duping LPs by making resin
castings.  This wouldn't help with creating disks, except it might give
some ideas about fabricating your own blanks.

JCE

George's Coco Address wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Blake"
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 7:09 AM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Somehow I doubt this 'disk drive' will work with
> thecoco...
>
>
>> When it was originally posted, the auction was for a turntable/record
>> player. It had been up for a while when I noticed it, he must have
>> realized his mistake...
>>
>
> HAH!
>
> If we had a way to make the record, a turntable could be used to get
> the data from a record through the cassette port.
>
> Does anyone have a record cutter? Even a 78 rpm recording would work.
>
> Years ago, I actually had my hands on a 45RPM record cutter. It had
> two platters. I think it was actually used as a dictating machine. I
> bet that would make a unique setup on a coco for saving and retrieving
> data. I wonder where a person would find a blank 45 record, if it's
> even possible.
>
>
> George
>