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

[Boisy Pitre]

Rick,

I've been to that store; it was at least 10 years ago if not longer  
when I traveled for Microware.  I always loved visiting the Bay Area  
because there were so many electronics surplus stores!  Hacker's  
heaven...

Boisy

On Apr 6, 2009, at 8:58 PM, Rick Taylor 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
>>
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