[Coco] [Color Computer] [coco] SCSI trouble > now NITROS9? and the need for storage

[George's Coco Address]

It just occured to me that since I can't use the drive properly......

Maybe I should go ahead and install a 6309 in that box and set it up for 
Nitros9 on that drive that won't work with another drive. Thirty megs is 
more than I need on ANY coco.
Backing it up to a floppy would be a snap, and really important things can 
still be saved to this XP box.

Since it's so darned easy nowadays to tranfer data from a coco to an XP box, 
or any OS box, about a month ago, I saved a TON of stuff to this XP box, 
began deleting those files and directories from the coco drive, cleaned up 
some duplications and trash and this resulted in a total usage of the drive 
to about eight megs. I have a lot of games in there and I never use them, 
but they will stay. I still haven't copied everything to this XP box, so the 
work is not finished.

This is what prompted me to do a backup to the other hard drive. It is also 
when the trouble began.  I have no idea when the primary drive failed to 
operate correctly. I'm pretty sure it's been at least six or seven YEARS 
since I backed it up.......shame on me.

THE NEED FOR STORAGE...

Well, I've been thinking that if we had a SCSI adapter to read and write to 
one of those memory sticks, or XD or whatever, it would be pretty cool. 
Then, it would be really fast to save the memory device to another, more 
powerful computer and to perhaps a CD.
I think this is already available for IDE systems, but a SCSI adapter would 
be good for us "old timers".

George