[Coco] 2 x 3.5 Drives on CoCo

Joel Ewy jcewy at swbell.net
Tue Mar 16 10:51:13 EDT 2010


Chester Patterson wrote:
>  
> Back in the mid-late 80's, when I worked at Howard Medical (a Coco
> hardware vendor in Chicago), I bought a Sony 720k 3.5" half height floppy
> drive. I still have it, works great. Curious thing is, it has a jumper to
> assign the drive as any one of d0, d1, d2 or d3. Never seen such a drive
> before or since.
>
>   

While they are much less common than the jumperless/switchless drives, I 
do have a number of 3.5" drives, both low and high density, that do have 
a provision to select the drive number.  Any time I find one, I set it 
aside for the CoCo.

JCE

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