[Coco] CoCoSDC: moving RGB-DOS to CoCoSDC

[Francis Swygert]

Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2014 10:28:39 -0600
From: Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com>

Has 
someone been down this road already? If I had a way to hook it up to a 
computer, I could image it. Actually, thinking back, I recall hooking up
 a parallel port ZIP (or SyQuest?) to my PC laptop and writing a C DOS 
program that read sector by sector to a disk file, then using that in an
 emulator... But hooking these old SCSI devices up to a modern system is
 not something I could do (unless I found a cheap SCSI/USB interface).
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I didn't think a USB to SCSI existed, but looked before answering. Yeah, they do... from $150 to $500!! 

The inexpensive option is a PCI or PCI-E card. $15-$50 on e-bay. Found some laptop cards PCMCIA cards for $15-$20, but most of those were listed at over $100 new in box. The $15-20 listings were the same product (one used) and had no bids, so the $100+ are probably pie-in-the-sky listings. 


Unrelated -- I have a bunch of Netgear 54G USB wireless adapters, new in box. Like a couple cases. Anyone need one or more? They sell for $10-15, so I don't know... $10 including shipping in the US? Will cost $3-4 to ship... might just donate them to some charity. I got them from a house I'm doing repair work on. Owner wanted me to clean out a shed full of mostly junk a renter left. Two unopened Netgear boxes revealed these. Not much else there, good thing I was charging by the hour and not hauling off for content like some of those TV reality shows!

 
Frank Swygert 
Fix-It-Frank Handyman Service 
803-604-6548