[Coco] CoCo Hard Drive History

[billg999 at cs.uofs.edu]

> Em 12/10/2013 19:15, Mark J. Blair escreveu:
>> I recently got an OS-9 Level 2 package for the CoCo 3. This is my first
>> time experimenting with OS-9. I may upgrade to NitrOS-9 someday, but I'm
>> going to get familiar with this original OS-9 with its matching manual
>> first.
>>
>> The manual makes several mentions of hard drives. Were there any
>> commercially supported hard drive packages for the CoCo back when it was
>> in production, or are these mentions of hard drive support leakage from
>> other OS-9 distributions, or referring to something that folks were
>> expected to home-brew, etc.? I do not recall ever seeing a hard drive
>> package for the CoCo back then, but I quit paying much attention to
>> anything CoCo-related around 1985 or so.
>>
>
> http://cyberabi.ipower.com/Gallery/CoCo/index.html
>
> By the way, I just received this yesterday:
>
> https://picasaweb.google.com/109345699838454178536/InterfacesDeDriveEOutrasEncomendas#5933650780058417810
>
> https://picasaweb.google.com/109345699838454178536/InterfacesDeDriveEOutrasEncomendas#5933650866491915538
>
> Now I have to find a fully functional MFM hard drive to use with this
> beast.
> Can I still find the software for this anywhere?
>

Your going to have a much harder time finding functional MFM drives.

bill