[Coco] Re: [Color Computer] Building floppy controller

Mike Pepe lamune at doki-doki.net
Mon Nov 28 13:46:28 EST 2005


Matías Gutiérrez Reto wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I'm a COCO 2 fan from Argentina.
> 
> Back in the 80s  I used to load and save my coco programs on cassette 
> tapes.
> Now that I want to use my coco 2 again I wonder if is there any way of 
> using a pc floppy unit or a hard disk with the color computer 2?
> Anybody knows about some project on adapting any kind of floppy or hard 
> disk to COCO?
> 
> Regards,
> Matías
> 
> 

Your best bet would be to surf ebay for a CoCo floppy disk drive and 
controller. They go from about $50 to $100 I would say. They're not very 
rare.

If you want to get a hard drive you're probably going to have to get a 
multipack interface, which are actually pretty hard to find.

-Mike


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