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

[Christopher Smith]

Watch it for a while, if nothing else.  I got my controller from Ebay -- I forget the model, but it's the one that doesn't require 12v while still being packed in a long cartridge case -- for $30 USD.  Trick was that it was in a bunch of CoCo stuff, so I got a spare copy of a certain game cart, another 64k CoCo 1, some cables, and a dot matrix printer at the same time.  The controller was listed as "mystery part..." :)

Still, I think they tend to go around the $30 mark reasonably often there.  I may want another one myself eventually.

Chris

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ronivon Costa" <ronivon.costa at gmail.com>
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Sunday, September 1, 2013 8:06:32 PM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] So, does anyone know where to get disk drives?
> 
> 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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Christopher Smith
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