[Coco] Reading and Writing CoCo RSDOS disks on PC

[wdg3rd at comcast.net]

Yup.  Since my dual P3-500 machine died a few months back (after 5+ years 24x7), looking over the replacement kit is definitely a serious operation.  The stuff changes a bit faster than back when I was under 30 and the Korean Coco2 was the latest thing yet I was loyal to my grey 32k button/real 64k machine that I'd had for years.  (Well, I was doing my real work on a TRS-80 Model 16 at the time, supplanted by an AT&T 3B1 after SoCal Edison murdered the 16).

The 16's replacement, a T6kHD, is the only machine I own (La Esposa has an XP laptop) that boots a Microsoft OS, unless you count numerous BASIC ROMs (Mod 1, 4, 100, Coco 1, 2, 3) to be operating systems.  Not that MS ever actually gave much support to Xenix -- for several years, I was the main tech support for Tandy 68k Xenix in southron California.
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 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Bruce W. Calkins" <brucewcalkins at charter.net>

> I'll have to toy with this one.  I have three Compaq Deskpro ENs, 733 MHz

> P3s.  They are my primary internet terminals, so this sort of play may take

> some shuffling, but you do have my curiosity going.

> 

> For simple emulation, I have had my best luck with Jeff V's emulator on 200

> MHz P1 machines.  Rock solid for emulation, reading and writing CoCo disks,

> is still my 486.  Something about the newer machines just does not seem to

> work with 360k drives for moving CoCo disks to DSK format.

> 

> Bruce W.

> 

> 

> 

> > Having some issues -

> >

> > Got a Compaq Deskpro EN, like 800MHz P3, installed HD, DOS 6.22, removed

> CD, installed 5.25" 360KB floppy drive.

> >

> > Man - what a flashback machine!

> >

> > Anyways, using port.exe, can't read any CoCo floppies.

> > Dskini.exe will format it, but port.exe will not read what dskini just

> formatted.

> >

> > DOS will format, copy to, and read from it, so i know the floppy is good.

> >

> > Any ideas?

> >

> > Any other software to use to image coco floppies for archiving?

> >

> >

> > Tony

> 

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