[Coco] CoCo IDE interface

[Stephen H. Fischer]

IDE = Idiot Designed Equipment. 

Some engineer took a hacksaw to an arbitrary point in the computer to hard drive electronics and said that was a good place to have an interface.

As opposed to the SCSI interface it could be built a few cents cheaper so the computer world went with it.

Now if you look at hard disks they are SCSI in the end with a conversion to / from the SATA interface. The drive commands are SCSI commands in the end. (CoCo Hard drives YMMV)

I purchased two Glendale boards to support their effort, I just saw the box containing them the other day.

SHF

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George Ramsower" <georgera at gvtc.com>
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2015 12:24 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] CoCo IDE interface


>  What is an IDE interface? I assume it's for an IDE hard disk but you 
> never know!
> George R
> 
> 
> On 7/9/2015 1:59 PM, camillus wrote:
>> Hi, john,
>>
>> I purchased a bunch of those pcb's from glenside, the boards are "untested". I did not get on to it to test them all, but if you willing to test them yourself ( testing means that every link needs to be probed with ohm meter ), I can do $5 a board(that includes all the chips and the pcb, with the exception of the 40 pin cartridge connectors) + shipping.
>>
>> Let me know if interested. I think the schematics are in the archive somewhere, need to look it up. If you find it then please send me a copy...
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Camilus blockx
>>
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>> On 7/8/2015 4:57:51 PM, John B <trymyz at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Where is a good place to purchase an IDE interface/adapter for the CoCo? I
>> did a little research and it appears that Glenside Computer Club did make a
>> board at one time. Do they still make it? If not, are there board files
>> and/or a schematic so I can make my own?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> John