[Coco] COCO FPGA

[Frank Pittel]

I can get 2gig SD cards here for $4 so I don't mind wasting even a lot of
space but a 2gig card for 4 180K floppies is a bit to much waste!!

The Other Frank



On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 03:55:39PM -0500, Frank Swygert wrote:
> Yeah, the SDHC standard has pretty much taken over. There are still
> devices out there that are standard SD only, so will only take up to
> a 2GB card, so I think we'll see 2GB cards around for another 5
> years or so. But with prices around $5-$7 for a 2GB card, I think I
> could stand "wasting" most of the space. 1080K would be three double
> sided floppies, the most a CoCo will support -- using ADOS or some
> other ROM mod. The standard ROM would only support four 180K single
> sided floppy drives, or 720K. So half a 2GB SD card is wasted.
> RGBDOS would work easily though, without wasting any of the space.
> 
> ------------
> Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2011 00:19:37 -0500
> From: Aaron Wolfe<aawolfe at gmail.com>
> 
> On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Frank Pittel<fwp at deepthought.com>  wrote:
>  Cool!! I can't wait. How many floppy images will be available? The reason I ask is that around here it's
> impossible to get SD cards smaller then 2gig.
> 
> This is also why I am a bit surprised to see it implemented in a 100%
> fdc compatible fashion, since that would seem to limit use to a 3 or 4
> floppy images per card, simply due to the nature of the beast..  not a
> big deal given how cheap they are.  or maybe some sort of way to do a
> redirect using switches, secret pokes, etc and point to different
> places on the card, but that adds a fair bit of complexity.  Anyway,
> Gary will do it well, that much I am sure.
> 
> 
> 
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