[Coco] CoCo3 questions / Cloud 9 Super IDE interface

[James Hrubik]

On Dec 7, 2006, at 12:46 PM, Roger Merchberger wrote:

> Rumor has it that Joel Ewy may have mentioned these words:
>
>>   I suppose one could also use 1.44M floppy disks as well
>
> You'd be supposing wrong. Using 1.44Meg media will change the  
> datarate that
> the floppy drive expects (from 250Kbit to 500Kbit) and stock CoCo
> controllers cannot supply that speed.
>
> Taping over the hole on 1.44Meg media is also a no-no. The  
> coercivity of
> the media is different, and your data will (dollars to donuts) not  
> last
> very long.
>>

Guess I lucked out.  I just fired up the CoCo (first time in half a  
year) just to check out my OS-9 Boot disk  - a 1.44 formatted as a  
720 way back, oh, maybe 10 years ago.  Hole taped over with black  
electricians' tape.  Worked fine.  Booted right into Multi-Vue

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