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

[Ronivon Costa]

Sure, I understand.
Just to get it clear, since I am thinking of buy one and there is one
really expensive on ebay.
Thanks.


On 1 September 2013 20:59, 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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