[Coco] Tandy Hard Disk Controller

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 03 March 2006 12:37, Leon Howell wrote:
>  Does any one here have a Tandy Hard Disk Controller they would be
> interested in selling?

Did they actually ever *sell* one?  I looked at the one the local shack 
had, but at $129.95 I couldn't bring myself to write the check, NDI 
what ever became of it.  AIUI at the time, it also required another 
interface controller card between its cable and the drive proper & 
nobody had a clue as to what it might be required to do, or if it was 
even available.  It had a maximum of 3 16 pin dips in it that even if 
gold plated, couldn't convince me it was worth the asking price.

And I'm told it wasn't even scsi, but sasi, and you could I think do the 
sasi with a J&M-CP controllers side parport for a lot less money.  I've 
got one of those laying around someplace.  I gave up trying to drive 
parport printers with it after the FCC made the printer people put in 
input filtering to hold the noise down, and the coco's write pulse 
wasn't long enough to get good data into the printer when it had to 
hold it for 2-3 microseconds.

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