These darned old computers

From: Lawrence Walker <lgwalker_at_mts.net>
Date: Mon Aug 26 12:36:00 2002

 In referring to the "360k" do you mean the model (RS 25-1060) that shipped
IIRC for the 1000HX ( ?) ? I just checked my COCO M.502 drive and the edge
connector is slightly different. It would be nice to have a useable 2nd drive
for my CoCos.

Lawrence

> > >The Radio Shack Color Computer 2 is confusing. And somewhat lame. I have to
> > >go find the disk controller carthridge to attach disk drives to it. Then I
> > >have to find the proper disk drives. Fine.
>
> The drives are not much of a problem. TM100-1 with a power supply (-2, or
> "360K" will work) Radio Shack did the drive select in the cable. So you
> can either make your own cable and do "normal" drive select, or use the RS
> cable and jumper all of the drive select positions on.
> For running OS-9 (Microware, NOT APPLE!), I'd recommend change the cable
> and use DS drives.
>



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