[Coco] Floppy Disk Limation

[Stephen H. Fischer]

Try:

Stearman, Colin J. "Getting on the right track."
(1985, July) 26* — How to use 40 or 80 tracks and
double sided. Correction, January 1986, p. 231.

Original article was in the July 1985 Rainbow.

Again a quick find using "Rainbow text searchable index"

https://archive.org/details/RainbowMagazineTextSearchableIndex 

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Also:

http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/coco/Documents/Magazines/Rainbow%2C%20The%20-%20Text%20Searchable%20Index/The%20Rainbow%20-%20Text%20Searchable%20Index.pdf

SHF

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bruce W. Calkins" <brucewcalkins at charter.net>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 06, 2017 6:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Floppy Disk Limation


> Not without rooting through the midden heap.  It was a multi-part series 
> entitled "Cooking with CoCo" or something along that line.
> 
> Bruce W.
> 
> 
> 
> On 05/06/2017 08:49 PM, phillip taylor wrote:
>> Do you what month and year it was in?
>>
>> On Sat, May 6, 2017 at 3:42 PM, Bruce W. Calkins <brucewcalkins at charter.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> You WILL need to modify Disk Extended Color Basic.  No hardware
>>> modifications needed for 80 tracks.  See Colin Stearman's articles in The
>>> Rainbow Magazine.  Easier to use Ados.  Now if you are trying for quad
>>> density; (1.2Meg 5.25" or 1.44meg 3.5") no the FD-502 hardware is not
>>> easily modifiable.
>>>
>>> Bruce W.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 05/06/2017 03:31 PM, phillip taylor wrote:
>>>
>>>> I wanted to ask if there is any way to configure the FD-502  26-3133
>>>> floppy
>>>> disk to use 80 track double sided without having to depend Ados?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>