[Coco] Floppy drives

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Mon Mar 10 20:19:54 EDT 2008


On Monday 10 March 2008, mike delyea wrote:
>I got a couple 5.25 inch 2.4mb floppies out of an old server.  Are
>these like the 1.2mb floppies and thus no good for coco?
>
Essentially yes.  They need an FDC chip in the controller that can run at 1 
megabaud, 4x faster than the coco's FDC can run.

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