[Coco] What items don't belong in the CoCo auction!

Arthur Flexser flexser at fiu.edu
Fri Mar 21 00:46:30 EDT 2014


I wonder why they only allowed 10 256-byte sectors per track, vs. 18
sectors with CoCo formatting?  Seems very wasteful of disk space.  Were
they using single-density disks?

Art




On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 12:21 AM, Greg Law <glaw at live.com> wrote:

> From: Sean
>
>  Also, what's that Radio Shack branded TRS-80 Mini Disk, looks a lot like
>> the FD-500?  Same thing, just one was rebranded?
>>
>
> The TRS-80 Mini Disk is the disk drive for the TRS-80 Model I. It's
> basically a 35-track single sided drive. You can get the full specs about
> half-way down the page at http://www.trs-80.com/trs80-models-model1.htm.
>
>
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