[Coco] CF or SD/Micro SD adapter?

[Kevin Becker]

I started with a 16K CoCo 2 as a kid I remember having similar platform war
arguments with my friends.  Sadly we sold it long ago when the family
upgraded to a Tandy 1000.  After tinkering with a Tandy 102 for many years
now, I decided I wanted to get a CoCo again as well so I just recently got
a 64K CoCo2 from eBay.  I also bought DriveWire cable and a CoCo SDC.  I
only used DriveWire a little bit before my SDC arrived so I don't have much
experience with it but I can say that the CoCo SDC is really great and it's
nice to have a self-contained solution that doesn't require the CoCo be
connected to another machine.



On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 11:08 AM, Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:

> > On Feb 28, 2018, at 9:38 AM, Ron Van Scherpe <rvanscherpe at penwin.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > So my question is has anyone in the Coco community made such an
> adapter?  Would love to pick one up as I still have my beloved first
> machine!
>
> Specifically, CoCoSDC. It plugs in to the cartridge port and emulates the
> old Radio Shack disk controller. The CoCo and all software thinks it is
> talking to a Western Digital 1773 drive chipset, but it’s really using .DSK
> images on an SD card. When Ed Snider (Zippster) does a production run, they
> are usually under $50. Several folks make cases for it, too.
>
> There is also DriveWire, free software that runs on Windows, Mac or Linux,
> that lets you use a cheap cable between the 4-pin Serial I/O port of the
> CoCo and the other computer. It doesn’t work with all software, but lets
> you do basic disk access across that serial port — like a drive server.
>
> And if there is not drive controller, a guy on eBay sells a high speed
> loader that gives you commands for doing simple DIR, LOAD and SAVE stuff
> across a serial cable to a PC, or even an Arduino device he sells. I do not
> know what the official name for this is, though.
>
>                 — A
>
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