[Coco] Need new disk drive...

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 18 September 2008, Darren A wrote:

>On 9/17/08, Gene Heskett wrote:

>> On Wednesday 17 September 2008, Chuck Youse wrote:

>>>Am I missing something?  Double-sided double-density 5.25" drives are

>>>360K, no?

>>

>> If set for 40 tracks, double sided in the os9 descriptor then yes.  But I

>> believe that chip can have the high speed data rate hack applied, which

>> means

>> the nearest $25 3.5" 1.44 meg drive with HD diskettes can be used in it.

>

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>A high density mod using the MB8877A has been done by one of the

>members of this list. It's somewhat more complicated than just

>attaching an HD drive. He used the early version of Tandy's 26-3029

>controller, some of which had a WD1793 while others came with the

>MB8877A. He still has the information and photos up on his web site:

>

><http://www.doki-doki.net/~lamune/computers/coco/hd-floppy/>

>

>Darren

>

Yes, I believe that's the one, and of course such info can always use the 
publicity.  Thanks Darren.

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