[Coco] [coco] the old grey ghost lives!!

[wdg3rd at comcast.net]

From: RJRTTY at aol.com
> In a message dated 5/10/2008 12:12:12 A.M.  Eastern Daylight Time, 
> diegoba at adinet.com.uy writes:
> Roy, I believe I have an  original shack 4 drive cable.
> If you want it, I should be able to send it to  you...
> 
> Diego
> 
> Thanks for the offer Diego but those cables  probably 
> accomplished drive selection with missing teeth in
> the  connectors.   I have the connectors and cable
> to make a custom  cable with all the teeth present
> and will do drive selection on each drive's  main 
> PC board.
> 
> This is going to be so cool.   I may set it  up
> in a rack configuration with wheels so I can
> move it around  easily.

If it was a Tandy 4-drive cable, it was definitely a tooth-removal situation.  The stock cable for the CoCo drives was for two drives (and had teeth removed), if you went beyond that the cable you special-ordered was the same as came with the first TRS-80 Model One floppy drive.
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Ward Griffiths    wdg3rd at comcast.net

These histrionics were probably unnecessary, since there was no reason to think anybody would be watching us with more than casual interest until I made my first move to follow Buchanon's trail, in London.  Still, somebody might check back this far later, and I always feel that if you're going to play a part, you might as well play it all the way, at least in public -- and it's hard to tell what's public and what isn't, these electronic days.
Donald Hamilton, _The Devastators_, 1965