[Coco] Hardware to read foreign disks on PC

[Bob Devries]

Hi Steven,

The device advertised on that website has one serious limitation, and that 
is, it cannot interface to either 3.5" or 8" drives. I'm not concerned for 
the 8" drive, but I have numerous 3.5" disks in both 720K and 1.4MB formats 
which I'd like to archive.

Regards, Bob Devries
Dalby, QLD, Australia


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steven Hirsch" <snhirsch at gmail.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2012 9:43 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Hardware to read foreign disks on PC


> On Wed, 4 Apr 2012, Bob Devries wrote:
>
>> for those who are interested, there is a piece of hardware in development 
>> now which will be capable of reading almost any disk format (except 
>> perhaps apple formats).
>
> There are a number of USB devices out there capable of reading multiple 
> formats.  For instance this one will read a number of formats (including 
> Apple GCR, Commodore GCR _and_ CoCo):
>
> http://www.deviceside.com/
>
> I own one myself.  Host software is available for Linux, Mac and Windows.
>
> Steve
>
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