[Coco] The perfect mas storage for the coco

[Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)]

as I said if it can't work with 18  256-bytes sectors it won't work

i hope you guys manage to make it work cause it would be a cheap floppy
replacement.


On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 8:59 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.
> > 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
>
>
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