[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.
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Theodore (Alex) Evans
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