[Coco] Re: [Color Computer] CoCo Max patching

[Mike Pepe]

Peter Wemm wrote:
> On Monday 28 November 2005 10:44 am, Mike Pepe wrote:
> 
>> I just built myself an "FD-503"- a rebuilt FD500 case with new power
>> supply, a 360k drive, a 720k 5.25" drive, and a 1.44M 3.5" drive- so
>> I can copy any format disk to any other.
> 
> Out of curiosity, how are you handling the 1.44M drives?  Are you 
> modifying an old style controller to use the higher clock rate or 
> something else?  (eg: an IDE floppy drive - like a zip drive but 
> reads/writes 720K/1.44M floppies [and 120M floppies]).

Actually, I'm not. The 1.44 drive is only (perhaps ever) seeing 720k media.

I'm going to start wire-wrapping a prototype high density controller one 
of these days. :)



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