[Coco] Rejoicing!

[Frank Pittel]

Welcome back!!

You have a number of good options for mass storage on the coco.

One is the Superide adaptor from Cloud-9. It provides an ide
connector as well as a socket for a CF card! With a bit of work
you can partition the CF card and install both hdb-dos as well as
nitros-9. You can even boot from the card. Booting nitros from the
card with my 6309 based coco take ~6 seconds!!

Another option is also from cloud-9 and that is drivewire. It allows
you to use your pc as a file server for the coco. You can even boot
nitros with it. While it's not as fast as the ide adaptor it is
faster then a floppy. With nitros you can have up to four virtual
drives of a size up to the limit allowed by nitros. From hdb dos you
can have up to four groups of 255 virtual floppies!!

Frank


On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 11:55:24AM -0400, Ries, Rich [S&FS] wrote:
> Just want to share my happiness at getting my CoCo3 going last night
> after a hiatus of, ummm, 12 years. I had four 5 1/4" floppy drives that
> I needed to shuffle to find the two operative ones. And then to see the
> OS-9 L2 screen come up! Wow! :D
> 
> I am now considering a large mass storage device of some type. Any
> suggestions? The more Plug-n-Play-ish it is, the better.
> 
> Thanks,
> --Rich
> 
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