[Coco] CoCo Hard Drive History

[Greg Law]

From: goosey

> 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.

The Eliminator used a WD1002-05 controller that supported up to three MFM 
hard drives and up to four 48- or 96-TPI floppy drives. The Model III/IV 
hard drive Radio Shack sold used the WD1002-HDO controller, which is 
essentially a WD1002-05 without the floppy circuitry.