[Coco] Maximum CoCo Drives

[rietveld rietveld]

I can bring 3 pairs of dual drives (6 total) to cocofest if someone can figure out how to make it work.   Would be very cool to recreate a Rainbow magazine tech article

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On 1/22/2020 1:03 PM, Allen Huffman wrote:
> Heh, we talked about this very thing at an Atlanta CoCoFEST back in the early 90s.
>
> There was a program in Rainbow called SIXDRIVE that did this with six single sided drives of the say, but I never saw someone using the selects to use them as bits.
>
> We should do this and show it off a fest.

I can handle the HW portion (trivial), but who is the DOS guru who can
make that part happen?  Also, who can supply the drives :-) (I never had
had so many floppy mechs in my life).

Doesn't some of the drive select lines get used to handle double sided
access?

Jim

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