[Coco] Re: [Color Computer] Help for transfering Coco disk to PC

[Neil Morrison]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene Heskett" <gene.heskett at verizon.net>

> Coco's disks are not going to be readable in a 1.2 meg drive, the
> spindle speed is wrong for starters.  The heads are too narrow for
> problem B, and problem C is the data rate.

No, it works fine. But anything past Win98 and you will be screwed IME.
MS-DOS is what you need. On a few occasions, I've needed to format a floppy
on the PC and copy files to it from a Coco disk. You get errors on all
sector zeros because the Coco index hole to sector 0 gap is too short.

Neil




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