[Coco] 512K AND Beyond??? How FAR Beyond???

[Bill Pierce]

Allen, true but they still didn't support them... Only 35trk, SSDD. 5 tracks and a whole side was wasted unless you patched your system with "un-official" patches.

 

 

Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wed, Dec 27, 2017 1:09 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] 512K AND Beyond??? How FAR Beyond???

> On Dec 27, 2017, at 12:03 PM, Bill Pierce via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:> > Tandy must have had billions of those 35trk disks in the warehouse they needed to get rid of, so they stuck it to us Coco users. More documented system calls would have been VERY useful.... WAIT... I'm describing OS9... never mind.Heh.Tandy ran out of the 35 track drives at some point, since the FD-502 came with a double sided 40 track drive. What year was that? CoCo 3 days?		— A-- Coco mailing listCoco at maltedmedia.comhttps://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco