[Coco] Use Coco and DriveWire to Create TRS-80 Disks?

[Al Hartman]

While the Coco is physically capable of writing disks for the TRS-80 Model 
I/III/4, nobody has written imaging software to do it.

You have several options.

1. You can contact Ira Goldklang at www.trs-80.com and he will make disks 
for you for small donation.

2. If you want to send me disks with return postage, I'll gladly make you 
boot disks.

3. If you have access to a PC with a 360k floppy drive you can go here: 
http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/img/index.htm  and get Imagedisk

You can make boot disks with it. There are Model 4 disks in Imagedisk format 
at the bottom of the page.

I would recommend the Emulator TRS32 (http://www.trs-80emulators.com/) on a 
PC for making disks from images you can find on Ira's site, or Tim Mann's 
Site (http://tim-mann.org/misosys.html), or here: 
http://www.classiccmp.org/cpmarchives/trs80.php

My first computer was a TRS-80 Model I, and if I can answer questions for 
you, I'd be glad to.

-[ Al ]-

-----Original Message----- 
From: Rick Thornquist

Hi All!

I'm new to the list, having recently acquired a CoCo 3.   I have a few
retro computers, but I've always wanted a CoCo, and now I have one!

I've also just acquired a TRS-80 Model 4P.  Unfortunately, the 4P didn't
come with operating system disks, so I'm stuck until I get some.

My Question: I've just ordered a DriveWire cable and I've been able to find
the .DSK files for some of the TRS-80 Operating systems.  Can I use
DriveWire and the disk drives on the CoCo to create operating system disks
for the 4P?

Thanks for the help!

- Rick Thornquist

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