[Coco] Diskettes

[Bob Devries]

Steve,

research suggests that the disks would be compatible with an 80 track DSDD 
drive, or 40 track DSDD, but would need to be bulk erased to be useful.

If there's software on those disks, you'd need a PC with 1.2MB drive and 
software to read the disks, or a Coco and relavent programming experience to 
extract the data from the disks.

my $0.02

Regards, Bob Devries
Dalby, QLD, Australia

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Ostrom" <smostrom7 at comcast.net>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 12:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Diskettes


>I found a set of eight diskettes that I have never seen before.  They are 
>3M DEC RX 50 disks.  A Google search says the DEC RX 50 drives were very 
>unusual, with DEC trying to cram a lot of data on one diskette using odd 
>parameters.  Has anyone ever tried to use one of these drives?  These 
>diskettes did not read in my Coco drive and I decided not to try to 
>reformat them for use.  There might be data on the disks that would be 
>interesting to someone, or they might be blank.
>
> Comments?
>
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