[Coco] Read Coco floppies in my PC

[Bruce W. Calkins]

I had some success writing 160k CoCo disks on a 1.2Mb drive.  EVERY time I 
wrote I had to prepare the target disk with my bulk tape eraser.  Then I 
would "DSKINI" the DSK file to the disk, move it to the CoCo and back it up 
to another disk.  Disks written on the 1.2Mb drive seldom remained readable 
on the CoCo more than a week.  My current Win98/MS-DOS set up has a 360 
drive, although it has been a long time since it have booted it up.

Bruce W.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Graham"

> Just FYI, most double-density (360k) drives won't read double-density 
> disks written on high-density (1.2M) drives.
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> On 3/30/2012 8:20 PM, Bill wrote:
>>
>> Has ANYONE been successful formatting a 360K disk in XP with a  1.2Mb 
>> drive?
>>
>> Thanks