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

[Randall.kindig]

I have a controller, just no drive.  Would I be able to hook my controller to the 5.25 drives you mentioned (are they CoCo drives?)

Thanks
Randy
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On Sep 1, 2013, at 8:59 PM, Joel Ewy <jcewy at swbell.net> wrote:

> 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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