Roger:
This helps a lot. The CoCo drive I have is a single drive in a dual
slimline case. I have to open it up to get the drive model numbers but at
least now I have something to go on.
On the cable, I would call Tandy National Parts. About 3 years ago,
I ordered the DVI cable for the 102 and they had it. It was $30 or $40, but
well worth it. They had bood disks too for $5.
Rich
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-----Original Message-----
From: Roger Merchberger [mailto:zmerch_at_30below.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 10:44 AM
To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Model 100 DVI drive
Rumor has it that M H Stein may have mentioned these words:
>From: "Cini, Richard" <RCini_at_congressfinancial.com>
>
> Does anyone know if the specs on the Model 100 Disk-Video
Interface
>is the same as the CoCo disks? I have a single-drive DVI and a single
>low-profile CoCo disk drive. They physically look to be the same but I
>wanted to be sure before I lashed them together.
Depends... ;-)
The DVI wants a "standard" 34-pin interface MFM SSDD 40-track drive -- the
original CoCo drives were 35-track SSDD drives. If you put one of *these*
drives in the DVI, you will most surely hear bad clunking noises when you
try to format your first disk.
The CoCo slimline drives came in 3 flavors: The FD-500, which was 35-track
SSDD (bad) the FD-501 which was 40 track SSDD (which is OK), and the FD-502
which was 40-track DSDD (which side 1 will go unused, but should work fine).
I have a DVI as well, but I don't have a boot disk or interface cable for
my Tandy 200... so I have yet to use it.
Hope this helps!
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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Received on Thu Jan 30 2003 - 07:46:00 GMT