[Coco] Tandy Hard Disk Controller

[jdaggett at gate.net]

On 14 Mar 2006 at 14:07, Chester A Patterson wrote:

> What manner if Hard Drive would connect to this thing?
> 
Chances are either and ST-506 or ESDI controller card interfaces to 
the module pack. Winchester drives were around from the the mid 
70's. The first concept of the IDE did not come about until 1984 and 
first drives around 1985. Final standardization of the IDE format 
came in 1988/1989 time frame. 

>From what I remember the Coco Hard Disk Controller is just a an 
interface to the controller card internal to the case of the Tandy hard 
drives.  

james

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Wemm [mailto:peter at wemm.org]
> Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 3:38 PM
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Cc: Leon Howell
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Tandy Hard Disk Controller
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> On Friday 03 March 2006 09:37 am, Leon Howell wrote:
> >   Does any one here have a Tandy Hard Disk Controller they would be
> > interested in selling?
> 
> Whaddya know? one just appeared on ebay... (not me!)
> 
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8779957893
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