[Coco] Connect CoCo Floppy drive to Windows PC

Neil Morrison neilsmorr at gmail.com
Sun Oct 5 15:41:45 EDT 2008


With some floppies made on the Coco, all sector 1's were 
unreadable -something to do with gaps. By formatting on the PC you could 
read/write them with a PC or Coco. I had to copy 2 or 3 hundred myself, but 
only 10 or 20 needed this fix.

Neil

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fedor Steeman" <petrander at gmail.com>

>> Sometimes I have to format the floppy on the PC, copy the files to it on 
>> the
>> Coco and then read it on the PC.
>
> Well, my earlier set up involved a Coco with a 3.5" and a 5.25" drive,
> and then I would copy stuff over to the 3,5" drive. I was looking into
> a possibility that was less tedious, so if I could just pop in the
> diskettes directly into to the PC that would it lower the threshold
> for me a lot for this actitvity.




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