[Coco] So, does anyone know where to get disk drives?

[Joel Ewy]

On 08/28/2013 01:11 PM, Christopher Smith wrote:
> I'm trying to find drives for my CoCo systems, and I'm having tons of trouble doing so.  I'm at the point where I may just try to cannibalize other systems to get working double-density floppies and build my own case, but I'd prefer not to do this unless I absolutely have to.  My ebay experience trying to buy drives for this seems to have ended with UPS losing my shipment after my waiting a month to receive it, so not much luck there.
>
> Anyway, I thought I'd ask here.  Any idea where I might find a couple of floppy drives in an external case? :)
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> Chris
>
I have a few boxes of 5.25" floppy drives, and I might be willing to 
part with a few at CoCo mail list-friendly prices.  They are, of course, 
old, and I would need to test them before offering them for sale.  Some 
of them have stickers on them saying I tested them in 1993.  I'm not 
really prepared to do the work of checking them out quite yet, but I'm 
planning on thinning the antique computer herd just a bit, and maybe 
trying to convert some of my excess equipment into a few parts that I 
really need.  I'll give this list first crack at any CoCo-compatible 
hardware before I go evil(bay) with it.  I also have a large number of 
64k and 256k DRAMs and boatloads of archaic PC and Mac hardware of all 
descriptions that needs to be reduced to a more manageable collection.

JCE