[Coco] Maximum CoCo Drives
Allen Huffman
alsplace at pobox.com
Wed Jan 22 15:02:21 EST 2020
At fest we should have enough drives available to finally prove this theory in public.
> On Jan 22, 2020, at 1:18 PM, RETRO Innovations <go4retro at go4retro.com> wrote:
>
> On 1/22/2020 1:03 PM, Allen Huffman wrote:
>> Heh, we talked about this very thing at an Atlanta CoCoFEST back in the early 90s.
>>
>> There was a program in Rainbow called SIXDRIVE that did this with six single sided drives of the say, but I never saw someone using the selects to use them as bits.
>>
>> We should do this and show it off a fest.
>
> I can handle the HW portion (trivial), but who is the DOS guru who can make that part happen? Also, who can supply the drives :-) (I never had had so many floppy mechs in my life).
>
> Doesn't some of the drive select lines get used to handle double sided access?
>
> Jim
>
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