[Coco] OT... 90's storage formats

[Frank Pittel]

Don't feel bad. I got my first Coco in the late '80s and after I got a PC
put it in a box and let it sit on a shelf. When I used it my storage was
limited to cassette and I never got as much as a floppy for it. The Coco
sat in storage over the years and a year before I dug it back out of a shelf
in the back of a closet I was making room and threw out a box of ~30 1gig scsi
harddrives that I had and couldn't imagine that anyone would ever want!!

Frank

PS - I did save a  bag or two of 1meg memory sticks for SGI workstations. Not
sure of what to do with them but I know I'll regret it if I ever threw them out!!



On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 11:32:47PM -0500, Sean wrote:
> Yeah, thanks for letting me know I could have had an awesome storage
> medium/supply for the CoCo community.   :)
> I tossed about 50 Jaz disks into the trash.  Then again, I assume just
> one Jaz disk would be enough to hold every CoCo program that ever
> existed.
> 
> I was basically emptying out a 15 year old IT attic.  Everything was
> getting tossed.  Some of the stuff I was amazed at.  No CoCo stuff,
> all IBM based.  There was a lab room with an IBM PS-2 on a shelf still
> plugged in, that I powered up and it booted DOS. Then I typed 'win',
> and lo-and-behold, windows 3.0 appears!  After a couple minutes of
> wonder, and checking out it's 40 meg hard drive, "THROW IT OUT!"  I
> was forced to say.
> 
> There was a big rack of "SCO UNIX" boxes on a bookshelf. I chuckled a bit...
> 
> If it wasn't my job to clear the room, I would have saved a lot more stuff. :)
> 
> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 11:50 PM, Frank Pittel <fwp at deepthought.com> wrote:
> > Thanks for the subject change! :-)
> >
> > I have a scsi Jazz drive that I use with my coco. The 1gig give me an almost
> > stupid amount of storage for Nitros!! :-) It's also fast.
> >
> > Frank
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 11:03:22PM -0500, Sean wrote:
> >> Heh, changing the subject of this to OT...
> >> The only time I dealt with the SyQuest was with a parallel version.  I
> >> thought I was going to have to smash it out of anger it was soooooo
> >> slooooow....
> >>
> >> Guess I never tried the SCSI version.
> >>
> >> Last year I threw out a whole box of the 1G version of the Syquest
> >> disks, as well as many Jaz disks and drives.
> >> I guess I could have put them on ebay, but I was in charge of moving
> >> my office to another building, there was so much old hardware that I
> >> had no time to worry about the nostalgia factor.
> >>
> >> Truthfully, I really didn't think anyone would be using a Jaz or
> >> Syquest drive for any reason.
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:
> >> > On Apr 6, 2009, at 10:43 PM, Sean wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> Oh, I got a ZIP drive in early '95 for my first PC.  Hell of a time
> >> >> finding them in stock back then, they sold out fast.  At the time I
> >> >> wished there was a SCSI interface to use it with my CoCo!
> >> >
> >> > I, too, remember quite a wait to get a ZIP drive early on. I had a SCSI
> >> > model, but it could not be used on the CoCo since at the time the CoCo SCSI
> >> > interfaces did not provide hardware parity. Instead, I used it on my MM/1.
> >> >
> >> > In speaking with some Atari ST vendors on GEnie, they too had faced similar
> >> > problems and one guy gave me the specs for the one chip they used to add
> >> > hardware parity to their Atari interface. I do not know if other CoCo
> >> > interfaces came out that supported the parity (CLoud-9s?) but it was a drag
> >> > not being able to use these on my CoCo.
> >> >
> >> > Instead, I chose SyQuest EZ135 -- faster and more storage and similar
> >> > prices. Alas, SyQuest lost the format war.
> >> >
> >> >                -- A
> >> >
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