Need help or service manual for RS COCO mini disk 26-3022...

From: ajp166 <ajp166_at_bellatlantic.net>
Date: Sun Oct 15 14:03:11 2000

>At least around here, the very FIRST drives that RS made available for
the
>Coco were Shugart SA400s. That is a 35 track drive with the spiral
groove
>disk. Allison pointed out that there was a later model (SA400L) that
>could handle 40 track. BTW, if you have decent machine shop
capabilities,
>the SA400 could easily be modified for more tracks, but it is NOT a
>handheld Dremel task.


Actually if you have SA400s better to replace them with most anything
else unless it's strict preservation. I still have a few for that
reason.
Those things were horrid.

>Later drives around here included Tandon (TM100-1)? and TEC. Tandon
uses


The TM100 was far better.

>Was the "TEC" label on the drive itself, or on the case (possibly a
drive
>had been changed?)


Likely TEC on the outer case, thats why I said open it and see if they
are SA400s.

Allison
Received on Sun Oct 15 2000 - 14:03:11 BST