[Coco] Early CoCo Floppy Drives with Big Door Latch Release Lever

[Bruce W. Calkins]

On 09/03/2016 10:15 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 03 September 2016 19:43:43 Mark J. Blair wrote:
>
>> So, about those early CoCo drives that had the big lever on the front
>> to unlatch the door:
>>
>> picture: https://twitter.com/nf6x/status/772196177919877124
>>
>> Were those drive bezels used on any other computer systems, or were
>> they designed and made exclusively for the CoCo?
>>
> Those were Tandon drives with shack labels & they AFAIK, were all DS 40
> or DS80 track drives. 35 track SS when on the end of a stock coco drive
> cable. Fill in the missing teeth, and they are instantly usable when
> running OS-9, with the correct drive descriptor.  I wore out 2 of the 80
> track versions but it took me over a decade to the first failure.  Good
> old drives, them is.
I have to disagree.  My Radio Shack FD-501 and earlier drives are single 
sided.  The FD-502 introduced double sided drives to the Tandy line.
>> --
>> Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
>> http://www.nf6x.net/
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
Bruce W.