[Coco] Help with floppy disk setup - first time user

Wed Feb 1 17:25:02 EST 2012

That will certainly do it!

Congratulations.

Best Regards,
Boisy G. Pitre

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On Feb 1, 2012, at 4:22 PM, Blake Patterson wrote:

> A-ha!!
> 
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/blakespot/6803572815/in/photostream
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> bp
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> On Feb 1, 2012, at 5:15 PM, Mark McDougall wrote:
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>> On 2/02/2012 9:03 AM, Blake Patterson wrote:
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>>> Even if no floppy drives were connected to the FD-500 cart, it would
>>> still load up with DISK EXTENDED BASIC if it were working and
>>> installed, right?
>> 
>> Correct.
>> 
>> Part of the disk controller circuitry that is responsible for enabling the ROM chip on the Coco bus is hosed (or dirty). The drives don't even come into play at this point...
>> 
>> Regards,
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