[Coco] B&B HD Setup

[Bruce W. Calkins]

LOL; At 4 disks and 8 heads in a full height 5.25 format they do have some 
mass to them.  That and they were also one of the most popular for some sort 
of audio recording and hacking unit used in radio stations.  I got the first 
from a Radio guy when his station upgraded and snagged the rest from eBay. 
One was DOA, but I found a circuit board on eBay for it and resurrected it. 
I still hope to get all four of them on line with the CoCo someday.  I will 
however need to find the details on the trace cutting hack needed to allow 
two of the Adaptec boards to co-exist, which is why it did not work 
way-back-when.



I still check eBay for them now and then, but the prices most people want 
for them these days is way far out of my price range.  Funny thing is, they 
don't seem to be selling them either.



> Ah, yes.  The XT-2190 was, I believe, the highest capacity MFM drive ever 
> manufactured and one of the hardest to find.  I miss that light-dimming 
> surge of startup current :-).