[Coco] CoCo Disk preservation...

[John Mautz]

Allen,

42 Tracks... It would probably come down to the Apple Disk II drive
itself..  I know he has half-track, quarter track, fat tracks, spiral
tracks and other fancy stuff companies used for copy protection so it's
probably possible.  It's not like the disk is physically different.  It
would probably come down to if Apple physically limited the travel on the
head on the Disk II drive.

John.

On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 6:21 PM Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:

> I will check this out.
>
> There was a similar hardware gadget we talked about several years ago
> which could do CoCo, but it was not set up to handle 42 track and other odd
> formats some of us used under OS-9. Actually, I think at the time it only
> did 35 track single sided.
>
> Since the sectors are just sectors, anything that can read hay hardware
> that gives us the ability to tell it how many tracks to read should work.
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