26 Dec
1998
26 Dec
'98
6:50 a.m.
Once upon a midnight dreary, Innfogra(a)aol.com had spoken clearly:
I have a bunch of new SCSI to floppy only controllers.
They are of NCR
manufacture. I got them from the Biin project, about 1991 so they would run
at least 1.2s, maybe 1.44s.
$5 each plus shipping. If there is any interest I will get more info. Replies
should go off list. Contact me at whoagiii(a)aol.com.
Happy Holidays.
Paxton Hoag
Anyone interested in putting a 1.2Meg or 1.4Meg floppy on their Tandy CoCo,
would do well to investigate this... AFAIR, there was only one HD floppy
controller for the CoCo, called "The Eliminator" from FHL (Frank Hogg Lab.)
Beautifully engineered system, but *extremely* expensive, and (of course)
not compatible with DECB (a.k.a. an OS-9 only System).
Of course, you won't be able to use that SCSI floppy under DECB either...
but you can use any of the existing CoCo SCSI controllers to access it
under OS-9. Depending on how completely you can access the SCSI bus, it
might be fairly easy to write a program to be able to access other floppy
formats on your CoCo.
HTH, and Happy Holidaze! ;-)
Roger "Merch" Merchberger