[Coco] Tandy Coco hard drive controller

[John W. Linville]

On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 09:19:33AM -0600, L. Curtis Boyle wrote:
> Oh, it existed all right. It was a $129 adaptor for a "real" hard
> drive controller board, compatible with the huge (and hugely expensive)
> hard drives that Radio Shack sold for their other TRS-80's. The
> descriptors for it were included on the OS-9 Config disk, I believe,
> and supported up to a 70MB drive (going from memory here), with smaller
> options as well. I don't know anybody that used them, though, except
> I think Steve Bjork did early on, as these were very primitive and
> expensive drives at the time.

I have one of the controllers.  Pictures here:

	https://www.facebook.com/linvjw/posts/10201350045932431

I've got the 50pin card edge -> pin header IDC cable that goes with
it too, FWIW...

Hth!

John
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