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

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 25 March 2005 22:33, Neil Morrison wrote:
>----- 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

I've seen that error on the coco itself Neil.  But funny thing 
happened, the next version of ccdisk I installed fixed it and I've 
never seen it again.  Sheesh, that was a long way back up the log 
though.

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