[Coco] The perfect mas storage for the coco

[T. Franklin]

A little further investigation... These are all over E-Bay. They run from $30 to $80 US. Do a search for Floppy Emulator. Most come out of China. They all look different but have a common theme and from what I can tell, the same PCB inside. The one I bouth looks to have the same (or close to) PCB as the IPCas one which Steve state sells for $300+. I found one selling in the US and bought it just for kicks. I does require special format software (free download).

Perhaps someone can tell me how to configure the CoCo to run a 1.4K floppy with 512 byte/sec floppy? If it can be done.

In any event, I actually bought it for work as some of our legacy machines still use floppies and I'm on my last working floppy drive.


-----Original Message-----
From: billg999 at cs.uofs.edu [mailto:billg999 at cs.uofs.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 07:22 AM
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Subject: Re: [Coco] The perfect mas storage for the coco

> On 6/25/2013 5:19 PM, Rick Taylor wrote:>> There seem to be a lot to choose from out there. Such as (I have no>> affiliation): http://www.ipcas.com/blog/tag/usb-floppy-emulator/>>>> Has anyone used one of these or similar? What's your experience like?>> Any>> pitfalls?>>> I see one big pitfall: The $325.37 price tag. (EUR 249)I hadn't seen that, but it does confirm my suspicions. :-)bill--Coco mailing listCoco at maltedmedia.comhttp://five.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/coco