[Coco] Hardware to read foreign disks on PC

[Michael Graham]

It's kind of expensive in my opinion, perhaps you should check out Kryoflux:

http://www.kryoflux.com/

They've recently added write support to it.

On 4/4/2012 6:41 PM, Bob Devries wrote:

> Hi Steven,

>

> The device advertised on that website has one serious limitation, and 

> that is, it cannot interface to either 3.5" or 8" drives. I'm not 

> concerned for the 8" drive, but I have numerous 3.5" disks in both 

> 720K and 1.4MB formats which I'd like to archive.

>

> Regards, Bob Devries

> Dalby, QLD, Australia

>

>

> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steven Hirsch" <snhirsch at gmail.com>

> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>

> Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2012 9:43 PM

> Subject: Re: [Coco] Hardware to read foreign disks on PC

>

>

>> On Wed, 4 Apr 2012, Bob Devries wrote:

>>

>>> for those who are interested, there is a piece of hardware in 

>>> development now which will be capable of reading almost any disk 

>>> format (except perhaps apple formats).

>>

>> There are a number of USB devices out there capable of reading 

>> multiple formats.  For instance this one will read a number of 

>> formats (including Apple GCR, Commodore GCR _and_ CoCo):

>>

>> http://www.deviceside.com/

>>

>> I own one myself.  Host software is available for Linux, Mac and 

>> Windows.

>>

>> Steve

>>

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