[Coco] Cable for Color Computer Disk drive

[Michael Graham]

Yup, it's a straight-through cable.  If you want to use more than one 
drive at a time, you'll have to remove some of the drive select pins 
from each drive connector (many Coco drives are hard wired to respond to 
all four drive select signals).  It's the same pinout as a PC floppy 
drive.  I made my own cable by taking the 34-pin header-type connectors 
off of a normal floppy cable and moving the card edge connectors to each 
end.

On 8/16/2010 3:33 PM, Mike Rowen wrote:
> I have been slowly assembling components for a working Coco 3 system. I have
> separately obtained a 128k Coco 3, a Tandy disk controller card that greets
> me with Extended Disk Color Basic 2.1, and a Tandy Color Computer 5.25" disk
> drive. I do not have a ribbon cable to connect the disk drive to the
> controller card. Can anyone tell me if this a straight through ribbon cable
> or what cable is required if it isn't? Thanks.
>
> -Mike
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