[Coco] My CoCo plans - Looking for advice and insight.

Frank Pittel fwp at deepthought.com
Mon Apr 6 23:08:08 EDT 2009


I have an ls120 drive. I got an external "parallel port"<sp?> version attached to my superide
adaptor. I got the idea from Mark M. the drive itself is an ide drive with an
adaptor, power supply and case. The drives and disks go cheap on ebay.

Frank


On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 06:58:57PM -0700, Rick Taylor wrote:
> BTW I have an IDE zip drive, not SCSI.
> 
> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Rick Taylor <coder32768 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I've already been thinking along those lines, and I have the hardware. If
> > you're in the bay area, stop by http://www.weirdstuff.com/  - I picked up
> > an internal zip drive there cheap, plus a bunch of RLL and MFM drives. I'm
> > not affiliated with them in any way, I just shop there.
> > Anyway, yeah. I was thinking of going the zip drive route. I'll probably
> > try all of the above (zip, IDE, CD-ROM, etc) at some point.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 5:26 PM, <RJRTTY at aol.com> wrote:
> >
> >> In a message dated 4/6/2009 7:02:43 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> >> boisy at tee-boy.com writes:
> >>
> >>
> >> >Rick,
> >>
> >> >HDB-DOS's installation process includes running a  BASIC program which
> >> >will ask you if you want to compensate for an  OS-9 partition;
> >> >answering yes yields further questions regarding  size of the
> >> >partition, etc.
> >>
> >> >This process can be fraught  with problems for the inexperienced, and
> >> >it's for that reason we  offer a customization service.
> >>
> >> >Boisy
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> You know you can do it the way I did it and avoid the
> >> headaches and heartbreaks of multipartitions.
> >>
> >> I use a 100 mb internal scuzzi zip drive connected
> >> to a TC-3 interface in my repack as a removable
> >> hard drive and use
> >> one cartridge for HDB-DOS and another for Nitros9.  :)
> >>
> >> You can find the drives and cartridges with a search
> >> on Ebay..
> >>
> >> Roy
> >>
> >> **************Feeling the pinch at the grocery store?  Make dinner for $10
> >> or
> >> less. (http://food.aol.com/frugal-feasts?ncid=emlcntusfood00000001)
> >>
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> >
> >
> >
> > --
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> > not so coldly charted; it's really just a question of your honesty.
> >
> > - Neil Peart, Rush, _The Spirit of Radio_
> >
> 
> 
> 
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> not so coldly charted; it's really just a question of your honesty.
> 
> - Neil Peart, Rush, _The Spirit of Radio_
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