29 Jan
2003
29 Jan
'03
5:38 a.m.
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Cini, Richard wrote:
I don't have a CoCo, but I do have a DVI. So I
was going to raid the
drive from an external CoCo drive that I somehow got and use it in the DVI.
If it's the right specs (NOT the 35 track one), it should be fine.
Watch the termination and drive select.
I was concerned more with electrical compatibility
than software
compatibility. I didn't realize that in those machines Tandy used standard
floppy drives. I guess by that point in time, many manufacturers (except
Apple and Commodore) standardized on an IBM-style drives rather than
proprietary setups.
Except for the Model 100 "Portable disk drive"(s), all drives in TRS-80s
were "industry standard".
I'm sure I'm over-generalizing and will start
a sprightly discussion
on disk formats :-)
Any time. But I'll have to dig out my notes for the DVI format.
--
Fred Cisin cisin(a)xenosoft.com
XenoSoft http://www.xenosoft.com