[Coco] OVCC update. Need 5 1/4 inch FDD for testing.

[coco at jechar.ca]

   I think this only ever worked for a small subset of PD's whose BIOS 
was
   just right, and now even PC's with floppy support are rare. USB 
floppys
   have never worked so I think you should just drop the feature (IMHO).


On 2018-11-27 11:37, coco at jechar.ca wrote:
> On 2018-11-27 00:02, Mark D. Overholser wrote:
>> On 11/12/18 8:26 PM, Walter Zambotti wrote:
>>> Hi guys
>>> 
>>>   The port is going well.
>>> 
>>>   I’m working on the FD502 library at the moment.
>>> 
>>>   I will have a problem testing the physical FD support so my 
>>> question is:
>>> 
>>>   Is this support still needed?
>>> 
>>>   Can I just drop it?
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> It would be nice to keep the Support, because it makes transferring
>> Reals Disks to the Virtual Disks a little simpler.
>> 
>> The other options to do this would require a real CoCo and CoCo Floppy
>> and DriveWire or a CoCoSDC.
>> 
>>> 
>>> If not…
>>> 
>>>   I am looking at a Panasonic JU-455-5 AAG 360K 5 ¼ PC/XT on the web 
>>> for sale.
>>> As new condition US $45 + shipping.
>>> 
>>>   Can anyone recommend a FDD that will read CoCo disks on a PC.
>>> 
>>>   My oldest PC is an ASUS P5W DH Deluxe (2006) which has floppy 
>>> support.  It’s
>>> got a 3.5” but not a 5.25”.
>>> 
>>> 
>>