[Coco] 80 track disk access under RSDOS

Kevin Diggs kevdig at hypersurf.com
Wed May 5 14:55:39 EDT 2004


Hi,

	Because the original drives were single sided did not preclude them
from designing some expandability into the ROM.

					kevin

Neil Morrison wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bob Devries" <bdevries at gil.com.au>
> 
> > > Either way, RS *could* have given us 360K floppies from the beginning,
> > right?
> >
> > No, they could not have, since the first disk drives THEY sold were only
> 35
> > track and single-sided.
> 
> And the pulleys used to fall off the motors! I know they sold for $800 - I
> wonder if R/S paid more than $3 for the drive?
> 
> Neil
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