[Coco] Good news: my CoCo 3 is back to life!

[L. Curtis Boyle]

On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 08:31:49 -0600, Boisy Pitre <boisy at boisypitre.com>  
wrote:

> Gents,
>
> Not to put too fine a point on it, but FD-500 controllers will also work  
> at 5v.  I think it's a very older, specific model number of disk  
> controller that requires 12v and hence, the MPI.
>
> Boisy
>

The very old, full size controllers that came with original full height,  
really long grey 35 track single sided drives were the 12V controllers.  
Ironically, the only ones that could properly handle hi-density (1.2 or  
1.44 MB) drives with some modifications to the controller.


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L. Curtis Boyle