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

[Joel Ewy]

Ryan Pritchard wrote:
> 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.
>
Glad to hear you got it working.

JCE
> 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
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