[Coco] Connect CoCo Floppy drive to Windows PC

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 15 January 2009, wdg3rd at comcast.net wrote:
>From: "Gene Heskett" <gene.heskett at verizon.net>
>To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 9:57:07 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
>Subject: Re: [Coco] Connect CoCo Floppy drive to Windows PC
>
>> Crimping cane be done with a small vice, or a pair of vice-grips, even a
>> flat surface and a house hold 16<->24 ounce hammer will work.
>
>I generally use either a pair of channel lock pliers or an eight ounce
> hammer. About the only thing that hammer is good for (as the man said, you
> can be gentle with a big hammer, you can't be forceful with a small one)
> except for hammering a bunch of finishing nails into a piece of soft pine
> to jerry-rig a patch panel for the old copper phone lines in the house
> (which is _glued_ to a stud in the basement -- I wanted to put the nails in
> the stud, but the house was built over a century and a quarter ago, that
> wood is seriously seasoned and laughs at nails).

Been there, done that.  Went to nail an old board up for a brace for the 
garage door opener I was installing, and my BIG Bostitch 28 degree framing 
nailer, with 110 psi and 2" CC nails in it, folded those nails up like I was 
trying to drive them into an 250 pound anvil.  I got another board... 

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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