[Coco] Second Floppy

[Chad H]

True, if same drives and disks are used on a routine basis.  I guess I'm
just a die-hard purist. My 502 enclosure has 2 360k drives in good working
order, and I have an additional enclosure that's the same for a spare.  I
also have several bare drives boxed up for spares.  I was trying to stick
with real floppies for as long as possible..it just doesn't feel the same to
me linking over a cable to a PC for storage...feel like I'm operating some
sort of 'phantom' terminal..not coco'ish (a word?)  I also have many
unopened & sealed boxes of 360k disks stored up.

I do feel where your coming from though.  I have run into the same thing
with my cassette operations.  I don't know if its my CCR-81, or if it's the
tapes, but more and more often I'm getting load errors.  I've been using my
digital MD recorder instead of the tape drive itself recently, so I guess
that's sorta cheating.  I see e-bay still has new unopened cassettes though,
might try to get some and see how they behave, but now I've gotten sorta
used to not having to FF/Rewind tapes lol.  Oh well, c'est la vie.

- Chad

-----Original Message-----
From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
Behalf Of Frank Pittel
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2012 11:47 AM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] Second Floppy

The current pricing isn't the only problem. The availability and age of both
the drives and disks are the real issue. Besides drivewire is free and I
have a better chance of reading the images from my computer via drivewire in
4-5 years then a floppy!

The Other Frank


On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 11:07:51AM -0500, Chad H wrote:
> Interesting how that works... I remember my dad paying a couple 
> hundred bucks for a FD-501 unit back in the day from Radio 
> Shack....over the years the prices on drives went down...way 
> down...now that they've become rare and are still in demand, the 
> prices come back up slightly, but still can get them cheaper than you
could back in the 80's.  And this is bad?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com 
> [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Frank Pittel
> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2012 11:28 AM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Second Floppy
> 
> Everytime I see where the price of drives are going I redouble my 
> efforts to moving from floppies to drivewire!!
> 
> The Other Frank
> 
> 
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 11:15:03AM -0400, Frank Swygert wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:34:58 -0400
> > From: Louis Ciotti<lciotti1 at gmail.com>
> > 
> > I would like to add a second floppy to my FD-501 case.  Any 
> > reasonable priced sources?
> > 
> > ----------------------------------
> > 
> > And I thought the days of $100+ 5.25" 360K floppy drives were over! 
> > The
> average price I found searching around were in the $55-$75 range, with 
> several as high as $235 for refurbished high end drives.
> > 
> > I did find some on e-bay under $50, and California Digital is still
> advertising beige Misubishi drives for $39 and Tandon 180K (single 
> sided like the original CoCo drives) for only $9. Go to 
> http://www.cadigital.com/flopdriv.htm and scroll down near the bottom 
> of the page. Those are the guys with the $45 Dragon 64 computers -- 
> they still advertise them!
> > 
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> > 
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