[Coco] Tandy Hard Disk Controller

[Glen VanDenBiggelaar]

Just had to jump in here.
Around Christmas, an "official" Tandy one poped up on Ebay, in the box with 
instruction sheet and cable. In the first hour, the bidding jumped up to 
$50. If I recall correctly, it went for about a buck and a half and some 
change. - A lot of money to spend on a controller and I Know now the MFM 
drives are hard to get, but a SASSI? I don't think I ever saw one up on the 
bay!
I recently read a very good article about Hard drives for the CoCo in 
Rainbow (I can't remember what issue it was, but I will dig it out and put 
it on my website soon-Probably my "More Marshmallows" page for March). My 
advice is wait for Mark and Boisy to get the Superboard done, or spend a bit 
of money on an IDE controller. The smaller drives can be had for a song. I 
recently got a "BigFoot" 5 1/4 inch dive (3 gigs) for free. This drive will 
slide nicely in a Floppy drive case and its thin (under an inch), so a 
floppy and easily go with it in the case and have everything all tidy.
-Just my 2 cents
-Glen



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