[Coco] My CoCo plans - Looking for advice and insight.

[Rick Taylor]

BTW I have an IDE zip drive, not SCSI.

On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Rick Taylor <coder32768 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've already been thinking along those lines, and I have the hardware. If
> you're in the bay area, stop by http://www.weirdstuff.com/  - I picked up
> an internal zip drive there cheap, plus a bunch of RLL and MFM drives. I'm
> not affiliated with them in any way, I just shop there.
> Anyway, yeah. I was thinking of going the zip drive route. I'll probably
> try all of the above (zip, IDE, CD-ROM, etc) at some point.
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 5:26 PM, <RJRTTY at aol.com> wrote:
>
>> In a message dated 4/6/2009 7:02:43 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>> boisy at tee-boy.com writes:
>>
>>
>> >Rick,
>>
>> >HDB-DOS's installation process includes running a  BASIC program which
>> >will ask you if you want to compensate for an  OS-9 partition;
>> >answering yes yields further questions regarding  size of the
>> >partition, etc.
>>
>> >This process can be fraught  with problems for the inexperienced, and
>> >it's for that reason we  offer a customization service.
>>
>> >Boisy
>>
>>
>>
>> You know you can do it the way I did it and avoid the
>> headaches and heartbreaks of multipartitions.
>>
>> I use a 100 mb internal scuzzi zip drive connected
>> to a TC-3 interface in my repack as a removable
>> hard drive and use
>> one cartridge for HDB-DOS and another for Nitros9.  :)
>>
>> You can find the drives and cartridges with a search
>> on Ebay..
>>
>> Roy
>>
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All of this machinery making modern music can still be open hearted -
not so coldly charted; it's really just a question of your honesty.

- Neil Peart, Rush, _The Spirit of Radio_