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

[Sean]

I remember those... was that the 'floptical' that the early MM1/CoCo4
community thought would be good?  Sad those things never took off.


On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Frank Pittel <fwp at deepthought.com> wrote:
> I have an ls120 drive. I got an external "parallel port"<sp?> version attached to my superide
> adaptor. I got the idea from Mark M. the drive itself is an ide drive with an
> adaptor, power supply and case. The drives and disks go cheap on ebay.
>
> Frank
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 06:58:57PM -0700, Rick Taylor wrote:
>> 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
>> >>
>> >> **************Feeling the pinch at the grocery store?  Make dinner for $10
>> >> or
>> >> less. (http://food.aol.com/frugal-feasts?ncid=emlcntusfood00000001)
>> >>
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>> >
>> >
>> >
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>> > not so coldly charted; it's really just a question of your honesty.
>> >
>> > - Neil Peart, Rush, _The Spirit of Radio_
>> >
>>
>>
>>
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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_
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