[Coco] The perfect mas storage for the coco

[T. Franklin]

Working on a CoCo isn't a requirement for me. Although it would be nice. I bought it for use on some legacy machines at work and for my many keyboard work stations which use floppy drives.

I'm sure there's a workaround for the CoCo like a custom ROM or something. I read in the past that someone got a 720K disk working with a CoCo. I would think that if there's a will, there's a way.


-----Original Message-----
From: Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) [mailto:retrocanada76 at gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 08:27 AM
To: 'CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts'
Subject: Re: [Coco] The perfect mas storage for the coco

as I said if it can't work with 18 256-bytes sectors it won't worki hope you guys manage to make it work cause it would be a cheap floppyreplacement.On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 8:59 AM,  wrote:> > 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.> >>> I just took a look. Think I'll be getting one as soon as my Army> retirement check arrives. :-)>> The one I looked at said it emulates a 720K 3.5" floppy. I know> they work on a COCO so it should be possible to make this thing> do something, anyway.>> bill>>>> --> Coco mailing list> Coco at maltedmedia.com> http://five.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/coco>-- Long live the CoCo--Coco mailing listCoco at maltedmedia.comhttp://five.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/coco