[Coco] 5.25" Floppies...

[vonwinklekr at yahoo.com]

I have Model I/3/4/4p/4D, COCO 1/2/3, Osborne 1, Morrow CPM all use floppies. 

Trying to move all the Radio Shack systems  to newer options.  SDC for the COCOs and MISE and M3SE for the the Z80 systems.  




> On Apr 26, 2017, at 18:33, Al Hartman <alhartman6 at verizon.net> wrote:
> 
> You realize that Cocs are not the only systems that use 5.25" floppy drives. There are many, many retro enthusiasts who still use them.
> 
> I use them on my TRS-80 Model 4, my IBM PC, my Tandy 1200, my many Apple ][gs and Apple clone computers, my LNW-80, my TRS-80 Model Is, and my Atari 800XL. I am not alone.
> 
> -[ Al ]-
> On 4/26/2017 6:25:12 PM, CoCo Demus <retrocanada76 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Maybe with NK tensions on East Asia they will have to use them a last time
> :/
> 
>> On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 3:24 PM, CoCo Demus wrote:
>> 
>> Statistically dead ;)
>> 
>> You and the minuteman silos still use them :D
>> 
>> On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 3:22 PM, Al Hartman
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> 5.25" floppies are easy to buy new.
>>> 
>>> http://www.athana.com/
>>> 
>>> They still make them.
>>> 
>>> I don't understand the desire to prematurely declare 5.25" floppies as
>>> dead. I use them all the time.
>>> 
>>> -[ Al ]-
>>> 
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