[Coco] Making coco and dragon disks on a modern windows pc

[tonym]

>---- Original Message ----
>From: "Stephen Fischer" <SFischer1 at Mindspring.com>
>Sent: 6/3/2019 7:15:48 PM
>To: coco at maltedmedia.com
>Subject: Re: [Coco] Making coco and dragon disks on a modern windows pc
>
>Robert, what version(s) of Windows allows you to do this.
>
>I remember that MSFT stopped this at some point.
>
>I have a Windows XP laptop with a 3.5" drive that I think would work but 
>I doubt my W7 HTPC(s) would allow writing 256 Byte sectors if I had a 
>drive to install, the last 3.5" drive was killed years ago.
>
>SHF
>
>Note! I must change a BIOS setting to boot W10 32 Bit, and replace the 
>system disk with different drive to boot W10 64 Bit after changing the 
>BIOS setting.
>
>MSFT is getting very nasty to stop the computers being taken over.

This is the precise reason I have about a half-dozen Compaq mini desktops stashed away in the closet.
They are Pentium III/4 or older, have DOS or Win98 on them, and 1 always has a 3.5" and 5.25" FDD, and 
since they have ISA, I can use either an Adaptec 1542B SCSI+FDD card (pretty good FDC chip) or even
my trusty CompatiCard IV. With my Dbit adapter, I can even use 8" FDD with the CompatiCard, although
I have since gotten rid of my last 8" FDD.

Tony