[Coco] An eBay auction - what is it?

[John W. Linville]

On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 04:34:56PM -0500, Bruce W. Calkins wrote:
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> From: "Brian Blake"
> >
> >Saw this on eBay earlier. The controller definitely looks like a
> >CoCo disk controller, but I only count 25 conductors on that
> >cable. Thoughts?
> >
> >http://www.ebay.com/itm/121038263630?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649
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> I'm not 100% sure about the cable.  I have a faint recollection of
> unused lines in the cable.  I do have two boxes like that that I
> used for my CoCos. Both were modified for half height drives and one
> has a 3.5 switchable with a 5.25 along with two other 3.5 drives.

There are only 34 pins on the floppy connector, and half of them
are ground.  If you look at the pinout, several of the pins on the
outside of the connector are more-or-less useless.  I see no reason
to doubt that this is a CoCo controller.

John
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