[Coco] CoCo3 questions / Cloud 9 Super IDE interface

[Richard E. Crislip]

Hello Roger

On 12/07/2006, Roger Merchberger wrote:
> Rumor has it that Joel Ewy may have mentioned these words:
>>Steve.Lancaster at Moorestephens.com wrote:
>>
>> > 1) Is a floppy drive necessary for a CoCo?
>
> Necessary? No, but preferable, unless you have something like SuperIDE
> and DriveWire to xfer & store stuff... Audio Cassette gets "slow"
> quick! ;-)
>
>>Most people categorize 3.5" drives as floppies,
>
> That's because they are. Newbies might call 'em "hard drives" but
> they're named floppies due to the *media* not the envelope that
> contains it.
>
> I had some platters out of my first 5.25" RLL 66Meg drive that I
> *loved* to teach a "hard disk / floppy disk" lesson to people with...
> ;-)
>

Hummm... I always understood that the 8" disk were the real floppy disks,
the 5.25 were the flexible disks and thet 3.5 disks were the diskettes. Am
I wrong???
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