[Coco] Reading and Writing CoCo RSDOS disks on PC

[tonym]

I was going to see a friend, who has a recycling company in Miami (recycledpcparts.com), but he wasn't in the office today. I guess I'll try to catch up with him on Monday at lunch or after work.

Probably is, I have a security company coming inmonday to install some new database encryption system, so I can;t go in the morning on the way to work, and lunch will PROBABLY be a stretch, until they leave Wednesday...

These 800MHz or so P3's are the slowest I have.

They gave away to employees, probably about 100-150 of these, as they were being retired. No drives, but 256M ram.

Tony 



---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Brian Blake <random_rodder at yahoo.com>
Reply-To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Date:  Sat, 7 Oct 2006 14:53:49 -0700 (PDT)

>I'm using Dave Keil's emulator on a P1 66MHz machine since none of my other machines would even acknowledge the 360k drive. It's enough to run the emulator to read/write CoCo disks. Not enough horsepower for much else (supposed to need 166MHz).
>
>
>Brian
>
>
>----- Original Message ----
>From: Bruce W. Calkins <brucewcalkins at charter.net>
>To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>Sent: Saturday, October 7, 2006 4:44:39 PM
>Subject: Re: [Coco] Reading and Writing CoCo RSDOS disks on PC
>
>
>I'll have to toy with this one.  I have three Compaq Deskpro ENs, 733 MHz
>P3s.  They are my primary internet terminals, so this sort of play may take
>some shuffling, but you do have my curiosity going.
>
>For simple emulation, I have had my best luck with Jeff V's emulator on 200
>MHz P1 machines.  Rock solid for emulation, reading and writing CoCo disks,
>is still my 486.  Something about the newer machines just does not seem to
>work with 360k drives for moving CoCo disks to DSK format.
>
>Bruce W.
>
>
>
>> Having some issues -
>>
>> Got a Compaq Deskpro EN, like 800MHz P3, installed HD, DOS 6.22, removed
>CD, installed 5.25" 360KB floppy drive.
>>
>> Man - what a flashback machine!
>>
>> Anyways, using port.exe, can't read any CoCo floppies.
>> Dskini.exe will format it, but port.exe will not read what dskini just
>formatted.
>>
>> DOS will format, copy to, and read from it, so i know the floppy is good.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Any other software to use to image coco floppies for archiving?
>>
>>
>> Tony
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