[Coco] Using laptop floppies on CoCo (or PC for that matter)

[Mike Pepe]

Diego Barizo wrote:
> No, not me, but I just remembered those dual drives...That in a single 
> 5.25 bay give you a 5.25 and a 3.5 drive. With those, you could have 2+2 
> drives in the chassis...
> http://cgi.ebay.com/TEAC-FD-505-309-U-1-2MB-1-44MB-COMBO-FLOPPY-DRIVE-USED_W0QQitemZ8795089549QQihZ005QQcategoryZ44959QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem 
> 

Yeah, I was thinking of those, but from what I gather from the 
datasheets, the drive's rotation rate is fixed at 360RPM. And, the head 
is 80-track width, so you can't write 35/40 track disks reliably.

Give me a good old-old fashioned 360k drive any day of the week...

-Mike