[Coco] So, does anyone know where to get disk drives?

[Christopher Smith]

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> From: "Mark J. Blair" <nf6x at nf6x.net>
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 3, 2013 10:52:31 PM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] So, does anyone know where to get disk drives?
> 
> 
> On Sep 3, 2013, at 11:13 , Christopher Smith <csmith at wolfram.com>
> wrote:
> > Trick was that it was in a bunch of CoCo stuff, so I got a spare
> > copy of a certain game cart, another 64k CoCo 1, some cables, and
> > a dot matrix printer at the same time.
> 
> That's how I ended up with a TP-10 thermal printer. It hitched a ride
> along with a pair of  DSDD full-height drives in external
> enclosures, and a cassette cable. The drives and cassette cables
> were what I actually wanted. One of the drive enclosures also came
> with a free one-time-only light and sound show when I flipped the
> power switch... that was exciting!
> 
> Considering the weird thermal paper size that the TP-10 uses, I don't
> know whether I should put it back up on eBay or just store it in
> that big green metal box out by my gate. That box must be
> bottomless, because I put more stuff in it every week.

Mine's a DMP-100, I think.  Uses "normal" -- well, perhaps not for these days -- 8" or so tractor-fed paper, so that may not be a problem.  Of course I have no idea whether I can get ribbons for it, nor much of an inclination to actually use a printer ever. :)  If I ever did want to use a printer, I have an old Genicom printer that I got with some of my VAX stuff.  Dot matrix with a ridiculously wide carriage, shiny steel case, 1/4" thick plexiglass cover over the head, serial, parallel, pretty much everything you could ever hope for in an old dot matrix.  I'd bet it will plug right into a CoCo too.

Chris

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Christopher Smith
Systems Engineer, Wolfram Research