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

[Sean]

Oh, I got a ZIP drive in early '95 for my first PC.  Hell of a time
finding them in stock back then, they sold out fast.  At the time I
wished there was a SCSI interface to use it with my CoCo!


On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 11:17 PM, Frank Pittel <fwp at deepthought.com> wrote:
>
> 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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>> >> >
>> >> > - Neil Peart, Rush, _The Spirit of Radio_
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >>
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>> >>
>> >> - Neil Peart, Rush, _The Spirit of Radio_
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