[Coco] Which do you prefer and why? CoCo 1/2/3

[Frank Pittel]

Sadly the coco is going to be dependent on floppies for a while. There is
still software that hasn't been moved off of floppies onto more modern
storage.

On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 5:22 PM, Bill Pierce via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
wrote:

> Actually, 5.25 HD drives CAN be used with the Coco. But as far as I know,
> only in OS9/NitrOS9. The driver double steps (reads/writes every other
> track), so it reads the drive as a 80trk, 720k drive (just like a 3.5
> 720k). BUT, these disks are NOT usable in any other drive (or system), only
> the HD drive.
> I have such a beast and it works well (or it did, haven't fired up real
> drives in 5 years). THIS setup is where the "dns=3" is used... for high
> density drives (this has been discussed to death, but Gene RULEZ on drives).
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Barry.Nelson <Barry.Nelson at amobiledevice.com>
> To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Wed, Apr 26, 2017 6:04 pm
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Which do you prefer and why? CoCo 1/2/3
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> > Michael Christopher Robinson michael at robinson-west.com> Wed Apr 26
> 11:13:38 EDT 2017> > Can the coco 3 use a 3.5" high density floppy drive?>
> How about a 5.25" high density floppy drive?First, you might want to
> consider getting a CoCo SDC rather than a Floppy. Floppies are getting
> harder to get blanks for and one SD card can store a lot of floppy images
> plus the SDC is fully compatible with all the games like Gaunlet II. That
> said, 3.5 inch floppies work fine in low density mode. To force low density
> mode you can either use 720k floppy disks, use 1.44mb floppies and cover up
> or fill in the 1.44 detector hole, or disable the 1.44 detector on the
> drive. High density 5.25 inch drives are much more problematic but some can
> be made to work in 720k quad density mode. Another option is a Gotek USB
> drive emulator with the Hxc2001 firmware.-- Coco mailing
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