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

[Joel Ewy]

On 09/01/2013 07:47 PM, Ronivon Costa wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Will you make it available any floppy controller?
>
> Thank you
> Roni

Sorry Roni, I'm not ready to let go of any floppy controllers.  I'm 
still too attached to my CoCo stuff.

JCE

> 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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