[Coco] Floppy Controller available.

[Luis Fernández]

magnificent document
http://www.flexusergroup.com/flexusergroup/pdfs/floppy.pdf


> From: SFischer1 at Mindspring.com
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 21:17:53 -0700
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Floppy Controller available.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > (controller and FH floppy enclosure and PSU populated with one HH floppy)
> 
> HH = half height, PSU = power supply unit, FH = full height maybe
> 
> Looking at my J&M floppy controller, which matches the description, it is 
> the original that is just a floppy controller. I needed to put a standard 
> Radio Shack ROM into it, only one socket, when I got a CoCo 3.
> 
> > hard-sectored floppies WHAT???
> 
> SHF
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "L. Curtis Boyle" <curtisboyle at sasktel.net>
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Monday, April 15, 2013 8:47 PM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Floppy Controller available.
> 
> 
> >I am kind of curious if that is the "basic" J/M floppy controller with a 
> >switchable ROM, or the one that also had the parallel port built it (that 
> >even doubled as a hard drive interface with the right driver/cable, if I 
> >remember correctly).
> >
> > L. Curtis Boyle
> > curtisboyle at sasktel.net
> >
> >
> >
> > On Apr 15, 2013, at 9:06 PM, Stephen H. Fischer wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I just got this via private e-mail.
> >>
> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "J. Kanowitz" <jkanowitz at snet.net>
> >> To: <mmarlett at isd.net>; <dickbatt at buffalo.com>; 
> >> <martygoodman at worldnet.att.net>; <SFischer1 at MindSpring.com>
> >> Sent: Monday, April 15, 2013 2:46 AM
> >> Subject: TRS-80 CoCo J&M floppy system: "Want one?"
> >>
> >>
> >> Lucky you, you folks posted about this hardware in 2004 and it's the 
> >> first hit on Google.
> >>
> >> I'm stuck with one of these (controller and FH floppy enclosure and PSU 
> >> populated with one HH floppy) that I'm trying to get out of the ol' 
> >> family basement.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Any chance any of you are still at these email addresses and want it or 
> >> know people who want it? Unfortunately I believe it lacks any identifying 
> >> marks other than the J&M name - just a black metal box with the logo on a 
> >> corner, and I was never a heavy CoCo user, just was given someone's 
> >> abandoned system as a toy about... well, more than a decade ago.
> >>
> >>
> >> I believe I managed to run something that "mis-flashed" it (could it 
> >> possibly have some sort of NVRAM?) back in the day and rendered it 
> >> incompatible with pretty much all the disks that came with the castaway 
> >> system (helpfully they were hard-sectored floppies that someone'd stuck 
> >> masking tape over to make soft-sectored, which had already lost its stick 
> >> by the mid 90s) - was an unpleasant surprise that pretty much ended my 
> >> noodling with the system - but presumably this can be recognized and 
> >> remedied by people who actually know what they're doing.
> >>
> >>
> >> The rest of the CoCo debris may still exist in storage somewhere as well, 
> >> but access is quite inconvenient even though I'd like to get this stuff 
> >> out of my life and into the life of anyone who actually wants it. ;)
> >>
> >> I'm in CT, nearish NYC, and if this hardware is a true rarity you could 
> >> probably talk me into paying shipping to keep it "alive" (the 
> >> controller's no big deal, the floppy + PSU is a minor boat anchor, 
> >> though).
> >>
> >> -Cheers,
> >> -Joe Kanowitz, N1KZZ
> 
> 
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