[Coco] Tandy Hard Disk Controller

[Ward Griffiths]

On 03/03/2006 01:27 pm, Gene Heskett wrote:

> 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.

No, not SASI.  SASI was the first 8.4 Mb drives we sold for the 2 and 16 and 
you would _not_ want to deal with one of those crappy Shugart drives.  All 
other (pre-IDE) drives sold by Radio Shack involved WD (or compatible) 
controllers and Tandon (or compatible) MFM drives.
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