[Coco] Success at resurrecting a CoCo (26-3001) with a 26-3029 FDC.

[Ryan Pritchard]

I would like to thank everyone out there who over the past almost 2  
months, have provided insight and assistance with my quest to  
resurrect a CoCo 1.

During my journey, I successfully upgraded the CoCo 1 from 16K to  
64K.  Confirmed that the 26-3029 FDC was working, and even managed to  
get 3 out of 4 of my spare 3.5" 1.44MB floppy drives working on the  
CoCo 1 with 720K diskettes.  Not to mention the spare 5.25" 80 track  
96tpi double/quad (depending on who you talk to) density drive that I  
had with my GIMIX equipment, that first confirmed the FDC was fully  
functional.

Thanks to other discussions about how to create real floppy diskettes  
from the image files, I was able to boot NitrOS-9 after the first  
attempt at making a copy of the 3.5" boot diskette on a Pentium IV IBM  
NetVista workstation running Windows XP Professional of all things.   
The Fdrawcmd.sys and CoCoDisk combo worked marvelously.

Regards,

Ryan Pritchard
Fun Extends All Basic Life Expectancies