[Coco] Trouble writing to CoCo floppies from PC

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Hi John,

Regarding CoCo SDC’s…

You can buy one from me, I’ve been making them for list members.

They are $40 ea, + $5.95 shipping in the US, $15.00 Internationally.

Send me an email if you’d like to get one.

- Ed


> On Nov 26, 2014, at 9:04 PM, John Goerzen <jgoerzen at complete.org> wrote:
> 
> 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.  
> 
> 
> 
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