🚀 go-pugleaf

"Michael Black" <et472@FreeNet.Carleton.CA> wrote in message
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> "Neil Morrison" (nowrite@to.me) writes:
> > "Barry OGrady" <god_freee_jones@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> > | You would be hard pressed to give them away.
> > | You should try offering to pay people to take them off your hands, or
you
> > could
> > | simply dispose of them in the local garbage service.
> >
> > They are of use to those adding a HD to a Coco, say.
> >
> > NM
> >
> >
> Only if you've got an MFM controller.
>
> For SCSI, one could use anything at hand, and if it's too large, just
> waste the extra capacity.  You probably get a better drive using a more
> recent one.
>
> I don't know if there is an IDE controller for the CoCo, but that would
> be a better route, again wasting extra capacity.
>
> The only reason one needs MFM drives is because they are using something
> that can't use a better drive.
>
>     Michael

There are IDE controllers for COCO's.  I agree in general about SCSI drives,
newer ones with 50 pin cable or at least 50 pin adapters are easily
available.  It is the MFM drives that are the real issue.  If someone wants
to replace their old drive and keep there system "original" used or NOS
drives are the only way to go.

Randy