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

[Frank Pittel]

That was them. Looks like zip drives had better marketing.

On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 10:29:41PM -0500, Sean wrote:
> 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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