[Coco] PC to COCO FILES

Frank Pittel fwp at deepthought.com
Tue Aug 12 16:29:54 EDT 2008


I have no idea if Drivewire will work with Vista. I do know that
it works well with linux!!



On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 02:39:46PM -0500, John T Chasteen wrote:
> Thanks Frank
> This is one reason I put my e-mail on the coco List
> 
> I am going to try both solutions. 
> 
> Do you think Drivewire will work with Vista?
> 
> John
>  
> On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:14:23 -Frank Pittel <fwp at deepthought.com> writes:
> > John,
> > 
> > No offense to you or Steve but a far better solution is to use
> > drivewire from Cloud-9 to access the image files found on the
> > internet or other sources.
> > 
> > Over the years that I've used it I've found it to be very reliable
> > and although I've never timed it I find it to be at least as fast 
> > as
> > a floppy. It also deals with the dwindling supply of floppy disks 
> > and
> > drives for both the PC and Coco.
> > 
> > Frank
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 01:55:36PM -0500, John T Chasteen wrote:
> > > Bob
> > > 
> > > I forgot to tell you that I have a 5.25 in. floppy disk
> > > written 22 years ago by Steve Tyrakowski. He no
> > > longer uses the coco. I was able to contact him on
> > > the phone last week.
> > > 
> > > The title of the  disk is "CCREAD-MSDOS Utility to
> > > read and write COCO disks" This utility was copyrighted
> > > in 1986. This may be to take files from the Internet
> > > and then write them to a coco floppy.
> > > 
> > > John
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