[Coco] The perfect mas storage for the coco

[billg999 at cs.uofs.edu]

> 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.
>

Software should be easier to fix than hardware.

bill