[Coco] How to read CoCo floppies on PC?

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 13 December 2018 03:36:03 Walter Zambotti wrote:

> What will I require to do this?
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> Is there a recommend pc floppy drive.
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> I only need 40 track double sided.
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> Is it possible to connect a fd-502 directly to a pc?
>
> Walter
>
> Sent from my Xperia by Sony smartphone

That is not normally a problem, but this mobo, a nearly $300 Asus now a 
bit over a decade old, has some sort of a super chip FDC on it, and just 
putting a 256 byte sector formatted disk in any fdc attached drive, will 
lock this machine up tight, needing a full powerdown to reboot it..


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