[Coco] Cable for Color Computer Disk drive

[Mike Rowen]

Thanks for the cable info. It's been probably 20 years since my last  
Coco. Amazing what you can remember. I'm having a blast. :)

On Aug 16, 2010, at 5:00 PM, Michael Graham <jmetal88 at sbcglobal.net>  
wrote:

> Yup, it's a straight-through cable.  If you want to use more than  
> one drive at a time, you'll have to remove some of the drive select  
> pins from each drive connector (many Coco drives are hard wired to  
> respond to all four drive select signals).  It's the same pinout as  
> a PC floppy drive.  I made my own cable by taking the 34-pin header- 
> type connectors off of a normal floppy cable and moving the card  
> edge connectors to each end.
>
> On 8/16/2010 3:33 PM, Mike Rowen wrote:
>> I have been slowly assembling components for a working Coco 3  
>> system. I have
>> separately obtained a 128k Coco 3, a Tandy disk controller card  
>> that greets
>> me with Extended Disk Color Basic 2.1, and a Tandy Color Computer  
>> 5.25" disk
>> drive. I do not have a ribbon cable to connect the disk drive to the
>> controller card. Can anyone tell me if this a straight through  
>> ribbon cable
>> or what cable is required if it isn't? Thanks.
>>
>> -Mike
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