[Coco] drive motors

Theodore (Alex) Evans alxevans at concentric.net
Fri Jul 12 19:12:49 EDT 2013


On 13-07-12 05:36 PM, Stephen Castello wrote:

> Normal for a Coco. Having all the motors running saves a byte or two
> in not having to need a delay when switching between floppy drives.

It is not merely the savings, the CoCo actually uses a standard floppy 
interface, which as a single motor control line,  while the IBM-PC chose 
to use a slightly proprietary one with two separate lines.

-- 
Theodore (Alex) Evans



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