[Coco] The old vendors

[Jim Cox]

Chester:

Welcome back!  Cloud 9 (http://www.cloud9tech.com/) would 
be the place to go to get the IDE drive controller, but 
they are currently not taking any new orders until they 
finish the Superboard project (check the site, it's really 
neat)

As far as getting older 720K 3.5" drives, or 360K 5.25" 
drives, I don't know where you can go.  There is a product 
from Germany called "Catweasel" they allows you to write 
to newer disks in older formats, but there are some issues 
with the way newer disks write then may cause problems 
with the way the CoCo reads them (hopefully Neil Morrison 
or Rodney Hamilton will jump in here)

I just started a thread on this list about the IOMagic USB 
Datacenter with a 3.5" drive that is supposed to be 
compatable with 720K drives.  There are emululators out 
there that you can use on a PC to write code with and then 
you can transfer images of the code to the CoCo.  I am 
hoping someone will write a tutorial about this  soon, 
since I and other need to learn how to do this (hint hint 
:)

There is talk of a new disk controller, but that is some 
time off.  Hopefully someone else on the list can help you 
out more than me.

Again, welcome back and happy CoCo'ing.

-Jim

On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 17:30:39 -0600
  "Chester A Patterson" <vchester at setec-cr.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been "off-line" from the Coco work, so to speak, 
>for over 10 years. I'm
> getting the itch, did a search and have hooked up with 
>you guys. Now I gotta
> find a spot at home to set up my CC2 and CC3 and start 
>up again. I used to
> work at Howard Medical Computers (Chicago) for a few 
>years back in the late
> 80's. I was the last tech they had. They dropped Coco 
>support, and they
> dropped me! Now I live in Costa Rica, where I was born.
> 
> I was looking over my old hardware. The 20MB Seagate 
>(OS9) seems OK. However
> all my floppy drives (2x 3.5" and 2X 5-1/4") are beyond 
>repair. Here in
> Costa Rica these old 720K and 1.2MB drives are simply 
>not available. I must
> have some! Also, I imagine someone must have invented an 
>IDE interface (I've
> got Burke and Burke's old DTC MFM interface for the 
>Seagate) I think I found
> CRC (Canada) but they don't do Coco's no more. And Burke 
>and Burke simply
> doesn't have a web-site or I'm looking wrong.
> 
> So, the questions are, (1) who'll sell me one or two 
>720K and/or 1.2MB
> drives? (2) Who'll sell me an IDE HD interface for OS9? 
>Reasonably priced.
> We don't make a lot of money down here, althought life 
>is really good! And
> I've got to have it shipped to Miami, then here, pay 
>taxes, you get the
> idea.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Chester A Patterson
> San José, Costa Rica
> 
> 
> 
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