Good for CoCo, Re: SCSI floppies

From: Roger Merchberger <zmerch_at_30below.com>
Date: Sat Dec 26 11:50:25 1998

Once upon a midnight dreary, Innfogra_at_aol.com had spoken clearly:

>I have a bunch of new SCSI to floppy only controllers. They are of NCR
>manufacture. I got them from the Biin project, about 1991 so they would run
>at least 1.2s, maybe 1.44s.
>
>$5 each plus shipping. If there is any interest I will get more info. Replies
>should go off list. Contact me at whoagiii_at_aol.com.
>
>Happy Holidays.
>Paxton Hoag


Anyone interested in putting a 1.2Meg or 1.4Meg floppy on their Tandy CoCo,
would do well to investigate this... AFAIR, there was only one HD floppy
controller for the CoCo, called "The Eliminator" from FHL (Frank Hogg Lab.)
Beautifully engineered system, but *extremely* expensive, and (of course)
not compatible with DECB (a.k.a. an OS-9 only System).

Of course, you won't be able to use that SCSI floppy under DECB either...
but you can use any of the existing CoCo SCSI controllers to access it
under OS-9. Depending on how completely you can access the SCSI bus, it
might be fairly easy to write a program to be able to access other floppy
formats on your CoCo.

HTH, and Happy Holidaze! ;-)
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
Received on Sat Dec 26 1998 - 11:50:25 GMT