TRS-80 floppy drive compatibility - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

27 Aug 2005

and you hot swapped puters? Pardon the dopey question.
And shouldnt peecee drives work with either? I know
they will with a mod 3/4.
--- cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org
<ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
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  > 
 > I have a Tandy CoCo that had been used with 2 floppy drives. 
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  > 
 > Can I just unplug the drives and use them with a Model I, III, or IV ??
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 I certainly used a CoCo floppy drive unit (the FD501 one I think) on my 
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  Model 3 for a time, so it should work on the Model 4
too (same disk 
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  controller). And I see no good reason why it
wouldn't work on a model 1.
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 I even used one of those cheap mechanical printer swtichboxes (with 36 
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  pin Blue Ribbon connectors) to switch the drives
between the CoCo and the 
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  Model 3. Made up a couple of cables with edge
connectors on one end, Blue 
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  Ribbon on the other, and crimped a Blue Ribbon plug
onto the cable coming 
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  out of the drive box. Looking at the mess of wiring
inside the switchbox 
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  told me it shouldn't work (noise everywhere!), but
amazingly I had no 
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  problems...

 -tony 

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