[Coco] Read coco disks on a PC

[gene heskett]

On Thursday, March 15, 2012 02:30:47 PM Allen Huffman did opine:

> 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!
> 
Sure worth a try.  You'll probably need a dil header to card edge adapter.  
I have one that goes the other way, from card edge on the cable to DIL for 
the drive, but don't recall ever seeing on that went the other way..

Cheers, Gene
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