[Coco] Micro SD CoCo

[Chad H]

I already use a single 64MB compact flash card as my CoCo .dsk image back up
device...  But this is used connected to a PC and I backup/restore real CoCo
5.25 floppies using it. Heck, I even duplicate the backup process by backing
up to my CCR-81 tape every so often. I see the benefit, but I also like to
keep true to the spirit of the CoCo by running a true unit with a real 5.25
drive system.  A super speed system (or emulator) with extremely vast and
fast direct storage just doesn't seem like a CoCo anymore but some kind of
imposter. I believe one has to use a CoCo in its originally designed
hardware configurations in order to appreciate the beauty of it and how far
we've come since. Flash storage is awesome, but I acquired spare 5.25 floppy
drives that are boxed up for safe keeping and many boxes of 5.25 floppy
disks that have never been opened.  In a way, it almost feels like I'm
wasting my time sometimes with the CF backups because the real floppy system
does so well and, in my experience, has been extremely reliable.

-----Original Message-----
From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
Behalf Of Roger Taylor
Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 12:38 PM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] Micro SD CoCo

At 09:43 AM 10/22/2009, you wrote:
>I'm not sure I really see the point of making a card OS-9/DECB 
>accessible. There might be a lot of wasted space, but the cards are 
>cheap enough that one for each shouldn't be a problem. SD or Micro 
>SD really doesn't matter. The smaller cards are even cheaper now -- 
>if you can find them! a 512MB  card would be great for DECB, a 1-2GB 
>better for OS-9. No hard drive at all, just a card!

The cards are extremely large for a CoCo and we can easily store 
thousands of floppies and multiple builds of OS-9/NitrOS-9 with no 
worries, with years of space to spare.

Of course, there's nothing stopping somebody from using multiple 
cards to have even more options.



-- 
~ Roger Taylor



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