[Coco] Connect CoCo Floppy drive to Windows PC

[Fedor Steeman]

> 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.

The drives are jumperable and they look like they could be used for
(earlier) PCs as well, so I have my hopes up...

> Kind of. I keep an old 386 with MS-DOS / Windows 3.1 for this and it works
> fine - almost. But anything over that may not work.

I have a 5-year old DELL, Pentium 4, with Windows XP, so that may be
way too advanced... Or not?

> Sometimes I have to format the floppy on the PC, copy the files to it on the
> Coco and then read it on the PC.

Well, my earlier set up involved a Coco with a 3.5" and a 5.25" drive,
and then I would copy stuff over to the 3,5" drive. I was looking into
a possibility that was less tedious, so if I could just pop in the
diskettes directly into to the PC that would it lower the threshold
for me a lot for this actitvity.

Cheers,
Fedor


2008/10/5 Neil Morrison <neilsmorr at gmail.com>:
>
> Kind of. I keep an old 386 with MS-DOS / Windows 3.1 for this and it works
> fine - almost. But anything over that may not work.
>
> Sometimes I have to format the floppy on the PC, copy the files to it on the
> Coco and then read it on the PC.
>
> Neil
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fedor Steeman" <petrander at gmail.com>
>
>
>> 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.
>>
>> Is this entirely possible? Any tips/hints/suggestions?
>>
>> Thnx,
>> Fedor
>
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