[Coco] Re: [Color Computer] Floppy drives on E-bay

[Kevin Diggs]

Hi,

	Since OS-9 knows how to read a 40 track disk in an 80 track drive, the 
only thing you need a 40 track drive for is booting. Also, I seem to 
recall from looking at the Teac PDF for the common 5.25" HD floppy that 
it can be jumpered to operate as a DD drive.

					kevin

Steve Ostrom wrote:
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> I understand that 360KB floppy drives are very scarce now.  If anyone 
> knows of a supply of new or used units, I would really like to know 
> about it.  I've done a lot of searching with Google and have found some 
> supplies, but the cost is over $100 in most cases.  I'm not surprised 
> that these Coco FD's are going for high bids.  The last time I talked to 
> Mark M. about floppy drives, his supply was almost exhausted.  Hopefully 
> an inexpensive supply will resurface.  I still use my floppy drive quite 
> a bit.  I have two Cloud-9 hard drive systems on my two Coco setups, but 
> I still need the floppy drives to transfer my Coco disks to the hard 
> drive.  I'm also still buying Coco software on eBay, items which I don't 
> own and want for my collection.  These still need to be backed up the HD.
>