[Coco] Trouble writing to CoCo floppies from PC

[John Goerzen]

Rogelio Perea <os9dude at ...> writes:

> Spent my share of time going over the method you are using now (PORT &
> DSKINI emulatro utilities) and my mileage did change depending mostly on
> the PC hardware & software (OS: Windows 95/98/Me/XP) used, in my experience
> I found that the newer the OS on the PC the less unrestricted access any
> application had to the hardware, hence more weird problems here and there,
> ended up keeping an old AT class machine with both a 5.25 and 3.5 floppy
> drives to sneaker net CoCo files back and forth, eventually I stopped using
> that setup year ago.

This is a K6-3 running DOS 6.22, so not all that new.  It is about all
that's practical.

> By far - and this was not until recently - the best way I have seen ever to
> port CoCo files back and forth is the CoCo SDC card. I had tried Roger
> Taylor's CoCoNet and Drivewire and those do work but nothing beats the

I'm trying to find out where to buy a CoCo SDC, but it doesn't seem to be
available anywhere.