[Coco] CoCo Disk preservation...

[David Ladd]

On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 2:20 PM John Mautz <ejmautz2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Some of you are also Apple II fans like me.  If you are then you may know
> about John Morris's Applesauce product (https://applesaucefdc.com/).  If
> you don't know it is a hardware based Disk controller that connects an
> Apple Disk II 5.25 drive or 800K and now 1.44M 3.5 in floppy disks to the a
> Mac via a USB cable.  So why am I posting this here.  Well, he is
> expanding.  He just got his product capable of reading Model III TRSDOS
> disks AND CoCo disks!!!!
>

That is cool :)
I will have to check it out.

I am not sure if you have seen this:
https://github.com/keirf/Greaseweazle/wiki
That is what I have been using to backup my floppy disks related to the
CoCo.



>
> TRS-80 Model III TRS DOS Tweet...
> https://twitter.com/DiskBlitz/status/1257496256026312704?s=19
>
> I asked about CoCo disks and he tried 1 disk and it worked so here is his
> reply Tweet...
> https://twitter.com/DiskBlitz/status/1257742595553325062?s=19
> https://twitter.com/DiskBlitz/status/1257742595553325062?s=19
> https://twitter.com/DiskBlitz/status/1257742595553325062?s=19
> https://twitter.com/DiskBlitz/status/1257742595553325062?s=19
> https://twitter.com/DiskBlitz/status/1257742595553325062?s=19
>
> Looks like we are getting the ability to get complete copies of
> original disks.
>
> Very exciting. I don't know anything more than this, but I am guessing he
> is using the Disk II from Apple to read the disks using his custom
> controller.
>
> This is his first step and it read find so I'm hoping he will be able to
> get writing to work as well.
>
> Enjoy,
> John.
>
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Sincerely,
David Ladd
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