[Coco] So, does anyone know where to get disk drives?

[Ronivon Costa]

Hello,

Will you make it available any floppy controller?

Thank you
Roni

On 1 September 2013 20:45, Joel Ewy <jcewy at swbell.net> wrote:
> On 08/28/2013 01:11 PM, Christopher Smith wrote:
>>
>> I'm trying to find drives for my CoCo systems, and I'm having tons of
>> trouble doing so.  I'm at the point where I may just try to cannibalize
>> other systems to get working double-density floppies and build my own case,
>> but I'd prefer not to do this unless I absolutely have to.  My ebay
>> experience trying to buy drives for this seems to have ended with UPS losing
>> my shipment after my waiting a month to receive it, so not much luck there.
>>
>> Anyway, I thought I'd ask here.  Any idea where I might find a couple of
>> floppy drives in an external case? :)
>>
>> Chris
>>
> I have a few boxes of 5.25" floppy drives, and I might be willing to part
> with a few at CoCo mail list-friendly prices.  They are, of course, old, and
> I would need to test them before offering them for sale.  Some of them have
> stickers on them saying I tested them in 1993.  I'm not really prepared to
> do the work of checking them out quite yet, but I'm planning on thinning the
> antique computer herd just a bit, and maybe trying to convert some of my
> excess equipment into a few parts that I really need.  I'll give this list
> first crack at any CoCo-compatible hardware before I go evil(bay) with it.
> I also have a large number of 64k and 256k DRAMs and boatloads of archaic PC
> and Mac hardware of all descriptions that needs to be reduced to a more
> manageable collection.
>
> JCE
>
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