[Coco] Read coco disks on a PC

[Darren A]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Allen Huffman wrote:
> Speaking of... I just bought a $15 USB 3.5" drive so I can read some old floppy disks from a 1987 Tandy laptop I just sold on eBay. I wondered if a 5 1/4 could be hooked to the interface. Even if it only worked with the high density 1.44 devices, the 80 track 5 1/4 drives could at least read 40 track... Anyone tried this? I haven't had a computer with a floppy drive since 98!
>

The solutions for using real CoCo disks on a PC generally exclude the
use of USB floppy drives.  The fdrawcmd and omniflop drivers work
directly with the floppy controller chip on the PC motherboard,
whereas USB drives contain their own controllers.

Darren