[Coco] The perfect mas storage for the coco

[Darren A]

On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 6:59 AM,  <billg999 at cs.uofs.edu> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> 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.
>

I have one of those 720K floppy emulators from China.  They are locked
to 512 byte sectors and 9 sectors per track.  While a CoCo controller
is capable of accessing the device, the format is incompatible with
all existing software.

Darren