[Coco] Fixing OS-9 format for those that "roll their own"

Steven Hirsch snhirsch at gmail.com
Sat Nov 16 10:06:24 EST 2013


On Thu, 14 Nov 2013, Bruce W. Calkins wrote:

> I have the parts to set up a B&B drive.
> My main CoCo 3 which has been langushing in the shed for too many years uses 
> a pair of 190 megabyte MFM drives.  I have 4 of the drives and when I packed 
> them up they were all copies.

Maxtor 2190, no doubt.  I have three or four of these in operational 
condition.  When you spin them up, the inrush current just about dims the 
lights in the room :-).

IIRC, they were the largest MFM hard drives possible under the original 
spec.

Steve


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