[Coco] 8-Bit Microcomputers

[Willard Goosey]

>From: KnudsenMJ at aol.com
>Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 13:02:38 EST

>Yes, Coco's disk system was superior, plus it was *industry standard* out of 
>the controller Pak.  Thus letting you upgrade your drive by scrounging drives 
>out of IBM PCs, all the way to 720K 3.5" units when they came out.  Atari, 
>C=64, and Apple users were all stuck with proprietary all the way.

Yeah, what was with that?  It's like the 6502 simply couldn't deal
with a standard floppy controller chip.

Or was it all just greed on the part of the companies making those
machines?

>--Mike K.

Willard
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