[Coco] Not coco related but trs80

[Mark J. Blair]

> On Dec 14, 2020, at 6:11 PM, rietveld rietveld <rietveldh at hotmail.com> wrote:
> My hands are kind of tied by the 8 inch floppy drive.       I only own the TRSDOS disk as well as a bunch of blank ones. I dont have    a SDcard hardrive solution for either of the computers so making disks from an image is not an option

Do you have a floppy disk drive emulator such as an HxC2001 or a Gotek? It is possible to use those with the 8" Tandy systems. I made a PCB for interfacing their 34 pin interfaces to the 50 pin host interface in the 8" drive systems:

https://gitlab.com/NF6X_Retrocomputing/fd50to34

You don't need my board, though. You can hand-wire an adapter cable if you would prefer, because no active electronics are needed. Even if you want to end up running entirely from real 8" floppy diskettes, an emulator is handy for initial bootstrapping, and for using the target system to copy from emulated images to real diskettes.

The same emulators can also be used with CoCo floppy diskette interface cartridges, though we have more convenient CoCo-native solutions like CoCoSDC, too.

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Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
https://www.nf6x.net/