[Coco] [Color Computer] Older site.

[Richard E. Crislip]

On Friday 26 January 2007 00:58, Bob Devries wrote:
> Richard said:
> > I remember a little more now 8-), I was using a Supra 20mg HD. The
> > controller
> > for it had a special chip that caused the OS to look to the HD for
> > booting rather than the floppy. That sucker cost $500 and was a bargin at
> > the time,
> > and I HAD to park the head before I turned it off. Ahhh the good ole
> > days.
>
> The first hard drive I had for the coco was a 10MB Tandon MFM drive; full
> height, and was built like a door stop. I had to be SO careful with that,
> parking and so on, and even then the drive would periodically trash the
> sector allocation table or the root directory It was attached to a Xebec
> SASI to MFM controller card/host interface. Back then I used the SASI
> drivers for OS9. Now I have a Quantum drive on the end of my 4-in-1,
> running SCSISYS, and it runs flawlessly.

I never had the HD experience with my CoCos until Cloud-9 came along with 
their hardware expansions. Around 1984 or 5, I almost bought a SASI outfit 
from a guy based in Arizona until I called him. He smarted off to me which 
cost him the sale (around $1,500). About a month or two later I read in the 
Rainbow that he had taken some order money and pulled a Disney on a bunch of 
folks. SO in the long run he did me a favor 8-)