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

Tue Sep 3 14:15:13 EDT 2013

fd502s usually go for $50 on ebay.

On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Christopher Smith <csmith at wolfram.com>wrote:

> 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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