29 Jan
2003
29 Jan
'03
1:41 a.m.
Rumor has it that M H Stein may have mentioned these words:
From: "Cini, Richard"
<RCini(a)congressfinancial.com>
Does anyone know if the specs on the Model 100 Disk-Video Interface
is the same as the CoCo disks? I have a single-drive DVI and a single
low-profile CoCo disk drive. They physically look to be the same but I
wanted to be sure before I lashed them together.
Depends... ;-)
The DVI wants a "standard" 34-pin interface MFM SSDD 40-track drive -- the
original CoCo drives were 35-track SSDD drives. If you put one of *these*
drives in the DVI, you will most surely hear bad clunking noises when you
try to format your first disk.
The CoCo slimline drives came in 3 flavors: The FD-500, which was 35-track
SSDD (bad) the FD-501 which was 40 track SSDD (which is OK), and the FD-502
which was 40-track DSDD (which side 1 will go unused, but should work fine).
I have a DVI as well, but I don't have a boot disk or interface cable for
my Tandy 200... so I have yet to use it.
Hope this helps!
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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