[Coco] Connect CoCo Floppy drive to Windows PC

[Phill Harvey-Smith]

Fedor Steeman wrote:

> I want to try to put a 5,25" floppy drive that normally is hooked up

> to a CoCo to my Windows PC, so I can salvage a huge library of

> hundreds of floppies.


Dunno if it'll work, depends if your drive is jumpered (or jumperable), 
to have a Disk change signal on Pin 34, which is what IIRC PCs expect.
Also depends on what the drive is (no tracks & sides), and how old the 
PC you are going to attach it to is.

Unfortunatly a lot of the modern PCs only support one floppy drive now, 
and most don't know about 5.25" drives either :(


> Is this entirely possible? Any tips/hints/suggestions?


May be easier to scout ebay for a cheap PC 360K or 1.2M drive.

Cheers.

Phill.

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