[Coco] Reading CoCo Disks

[Al Hartman]

You're talking about this adapter:

http://shop.deviceside.com/prod/FC5025

It's $59.95 - to which you have to add an external 1.2mb floppy drive, case 
and power supply. So add at least another $60.00 or more, unless you have a 
drive handy, and can adapt a case and supply from something else.

This will only give you RS-DOS, 35 track, read-only support. You can get 
pretty much the same thing using a drivewire cable and your Coco for a 
fraction of the cost. Drivewire is more flexible, and is read/write.

-[ Al ]-

-----Original Message----- 
From: spereira1952 at comcast.net

There is a device that is advertised as a "one way" device, used only for 
reading TRS-80 disks. I have seen it mentioned before over on the Vintage 
Computer Forum. IIRC, it apparently works reasonably well for simply reading 
disk information into a PC.

I'm sorry that I do not know the name of it, or any other details. I briefly 
lookd around on the VCF, but I did not find anything useful during that 
brief look.

Perhaps you might ask this question over there, and see if anyone else 
recalls what this device is?

Good luck,
smp
- - -
Stephen Pereira
Bedford, NH 03110
KB1SXE


----- Original Message -----

From: "Michael Brant" <brant.michael.l at gmail.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Monday, September 14, 2015 11:18:25 AM
Subject: [Coco] Reading CoCo Disks

I recently aquired an XP desktop and have a 1.2 mb 5.25 in floppy drive in
it. Are there any programs for reading and writing either RSDOS or
OS9/NITROS9 disks?
Thanks,
Mike

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