[Coco] Finally got an FD-500 disk system!

[Michael Graham]

Thanks!

I've just had the drive apart for a quick cleaning/lubrication, followed 
by a test.  Everything appears to be in working order, except the disks 
he gave me.  No luck reading those at all (and I'm talking about the one 
CoCo program, Personalfile).  It's doing alright with one of my own 
floppies, though.

Oh, and I noticed this is also a one-sided drive.  I guess I figured 
they would have moved to two-sided drives by the FD-500, but it would 
appear I was wrong, haha.  I guess it makes sense though, since Disk 
Basic only addresses one side of a drive at a time.  It is the case that 
takes two normal half-height drives, so I could put a double-sided drive 
in, if I wanted.  I was thinking about putting one of those 3.5" adapter 
brackets in the (unoccupied) upper slot. I guess it doesn't make much of 
a difference to me whether the 5.25" drive is 180k or 360k, but I had 
been using a 720k drive for OS-9 stuff on my hacked-together setup.

--Michael Graham

On 1/28/2015 9:33 PM, Allen Huffman wrote:
>> On Jan 28, 2015, at 9:13 PM, Michael Graham <mkgraham at gmx.com> wrote:
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>> By the way, I'm sorry if this doesn't facilitate much discussion, but I was excited about finding this and had to tell the only other people I know of who care about the Color Computer, haha.
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> Congrats on saving some CoCo bits from the landfill! I guess I never had a “normal” drive since my FD-501. As I look at my resurrected drive case with mismatched drives (same model different color ;-), hacked up cable with extra connectors, and power plugs hanging out the back for when I plug up a bare 3.5”, I kinda want to look for one myself :)
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