[Coco] 5 1/4" drive

[wdg3rd at comcast.net]

> From: "Neil Morrison" <neilsmorr at gmail.com>
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 7, 2009 4:10:50 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Re: [Coco] 5 1/4" drive
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Gene Heskett" <gene.heskett at verizon.net>
> 
> > I don't know who this Dave Dunfield is, but he is flat wrong on that
> 
> > point.
> 
> He's somewhat well known
> 
> http://www.dunfield.com/
> 
> I wonder if he's talking about 1.2 M drives or those odd 80 track ones
> the 
> Tandy 2000 used?

They weren't odd at the time, anybody with a real 16-bit Intel CPU (the 80186) was using them.  The T2k, the original TI Professional, something from DEC comes to mind.  Remember that there was no standard 16 bit bus (and no standard high-densuty floppy interface) until the IBM PC/AT showed up a year later with slower hardware and the magic initials.
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Ward Griffiths        wdg3rd at comcast.net