[Coco] The perfect mas storage for the coco

[billg999 at cs.uofs.edu]

> A little further investigation... These are all over E-Bay. They run from
> $30 to $80 US. Do a search for Floppy Emulator. Most come out of China.
> They all look different but have a common theme and from what I can tell,
> the same PCB inside. The one I bouth looks to have the same (or close to)
> PCB as the IPCas one which Steve state sells for $300+. I found one
> selling in the US and bought it just for kicks. I does require special
> format software (free download).
>
> Perhaps someone can tell me how to configure the CoCo to run a 1.4K floppy
> with 512 byte/sec floppy? If it can be done.
>
> In any event, I actually bought it for work as some of our legacy machines
> still use floppies and I'm on my last working floppy drive.
>

I just took a look.  Think I'll be getting one as soon as my Army
retirement check arrives.  :-)

The one I looked at said it emulates a 720K 3.5" floppy.  I know
they work on a COCO so it should be possible to make this thing
do something, anyway.

bill