[Coco] Re: [Color Computer] BBS Programs for COCO3/OS9

[James C. Hrubik, Sr.]

Actually, any of the old PCs are worth picking up to see what kind of 
hardware can be scrounged.  A lot of the 286/386 machines had 720K 3.5s 
in them.  And I've built all sorts of patch cables using connectors cut 
off PCBs from old expansion cards.  You can even turn them into card 
edge connectors (cut off the unnecessary junk) for the CoCo side port.  
And you might find usable RAM.

On Tuesday, January 25, 2005, at 10:35  PM, John E. Malmberg wrote:

>
> If the drives have really gotten so rare, start looking for 8088 PCs. 
> They all had computable floppies.
>
> It sounds like I should see how badly damaged the ones that the movers 
> broke are.  It looks like the plastic faceplate was pushed in about a 
> 1/4 inch on one edge, but that does not seem to affect the rest of the 
> drive, so if I can fix the bent metal, the drives may still work.
>
> 1.2 M floppy drives can be used as read only devices for old floppies 
> if you can patch the ROM or set your favorite COCO operating system to 
> double step them, if you really get desperate.

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