[Coco] CoCo Hard Drive History

[L. Curtis Boyle]

Sorry, meant "4 no-halt floppy drives", not controllers. :)

L. Curtis Boyle
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On Oct 12, 2013, at 5:19 PM, L. Curtis Boyle wrote:

> The Eliminator used a WC-1002-05 controller, I believe, and also included a parallel port, real time clock, and 2 38.4k serial ports. It also supported up to 3 hard drives and 4 no-halt floppy controllers, all on one card.
> The B&B actually supported both MFM and RLL XT controllers/drives (I had one with RLL).
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> L. Curtis Boyle
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> On Oct 12, 2013, at 4:32 PM, goosey wrote:
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>> Tandy sold an adapter to hook Model III hard drives to the Coco. It wasn't very popular. Probably the most popular was the Burke & Burke MFM adapter. There was also the LR-Tech / Owlware SASI card, the Ken-Ton SCSI card, and Disto's SCSI controller which had, IIRC, both MEB (for the Disto Super Controller) and stand-alone versions. There was also the Eliminator and I'm not sure what protocol it spoke.
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