[Coco] New Coco3 owner

Mark McDougall msmcdoug at iinet.net.au
Sat Aug 5 10:31:40 EDT 2006


Warren Hoslet wrote:

> The FD-500 does not require a 12V supply. It uses a WD1773 FDC which is 
> 5 volt only. The original Radio Shack controller (Cat No 26-3022) is the 
> only one which uses the WD1793 and thus requires 12V.

Oh OK, cool. There's some erroneous info floating about the net then.

So the FD-500 being the earliest, I'm guessing, means it does the least? 
Single density, single sided 35/40 tracks???

Thanks!
Regards,

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