[Coco] Second Floppy

[Frank Pittel]

Actually I was looking into the idea of a mini-atx or even a micro-atx board with a couple gig
of ram and an ssd drive. I know it's several orders of overkill but the boards, cases, etc are
tiny and it wouldn't cost much more then a dual floppy drive setup for my coco! :-)

The Other Frank


On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 05:58:29AM -0400, Frank Swygert wrote:
> So get you a small ITX board and make a headless Linux unit that does nothing but run drivewire. It wouldn't be any bigger than your dual drive enclosure. Something like this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856119058. You could probably build one or get a used one ready to go for not much more... depends on memory and HD. If you're like me you have a bit of "spare" pieces left over from upgrades that would work fine for a drivewire server... don't need much. DSL and Drivewire would be it...
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> Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 11:24:07 -0500
> From: Chad H<chadbh74 at hotmail.com>
> 
> I was trying to stick with real floppies for as long as possible..it just doesn't feel the same to me linking over a cable to a PC for storage...feel like I'm operating some sort of 'phantom' terminal..not coco'ish (a word?)
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