[Coco] [Color Computer] Anadisk and CP/M

[shadow at shadowgard.com]

On 30 Aug 2007 at 17:04, pawzisme wrote:

> Hello folks, I have joined the group purely to pick your brains as
> help is not easy to find on this topic.
> 
> I have here a  fairly large  pile of  5.25" floppies most of which
> were used in a Genie (TRS80). The guy who used them was into all
> things computery and was also a writer. I say 'was' because he died a
> couple of years back.  His wife has asked me to see if I can find any
> of his 'stuff' on these disks, and to that end I have an old 5.25
> drive mounted in a fairly old computer, and am using anadisk to
> explore each disk. I also have teledisk and disk22.

While the CoCo (Color Computer) was a TRS-80, it's *not* the kind of 
TRS-80 that the Genie was a (semi)clone of.

You want to check on groups for the TRS 80 Model I.

And the CocCo definitely didn't run CP/M. For that matter, what makes 
you thinkl the disks *are* CP/M disks? There were a lot of OSes for 
those boxes and CP/M *wasn't* the most popular.

> I am getting on ok with Anadisk, but  I would like to know I am
> searching each disk fully, and not just one sector.  If I do a Sector
> - edit, and then let the arrow progress to the end of  the disk, with
> my finger on F10 to read the next bit, am I actually covering every
> sector or only everything on one sector?

Given that a lot of word procesor files, especially back then, will 
look like gibberish if you don't access them via the correct program, 
you are going to need a TRS-80 emulator of some sort to really check 
the disks. A Genie emulator (if there is one) would be better.


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Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
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