Just out of curiosity, has anyone ever looked at any of the replacement
SSD systems for things like the P112, Tandy Color Computer or Z-80 based TRS-80's with an eye towards making something similar that could be
plugged into the expansion bus of the 3B1?
On 2016-01-21, Bill Gunshannon <bill@server3.cs.uofs.edu> wrote:
Just out of curiosity, has anyone ever looked at any of the replacement
SSD systems for things like the P112, Tandy Color Computer or Z-80 based
TRS-80's with an eye towards making something similar that could be
plugged into the expansion bus of the 3B1?
Not I. Are they emulating MFM drives? I think that the Color
Computer used SCSI, not MFM, but I may be wrong.
Mine had just
floppies -- running OS-9. The TRS-80 would be likely to be MFM.
I must
admit to not knowing the P112 at all.
And by "expansion bus" -- do you mean a modified 3B1 which can
accept a second MFM hard drive? The expansion chassis did not accept
any disk controller to my knowledge (except perhaps the one only
prototype SCSI card which one of the regulars of this newsgroup owned.
In article <slrnna38uq.7n6.BPdnicholsBP@katana.d-and-d.com>,
"DoN. Nichols" <BPdnicholsBP@d-and-d.com> writes:
And by "expansion bus" -- do you mean a modified 3B1 which can
accept a second MFM hard drive? The expansion chassis did not accept
any disk controller to my knowledge (except perhaps the one only
prototype SCSI card which one of the regulars of this newsgroup owned.
I know this. Thus my question. There are addon systems for the COCO and
all of the TRS-80s and it would seem the only real difference would be the actual interface. I just wondeed if anyone had ever looked at any of these to see if they could be adapted as currently the 3B1 suffers from the same problem, a dearth of usable disk drives and lack of reliability of those
that exist.
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