knudsen@ihnss.UUCP (03/23/84)
The April RAINBOW, pages 276-7, carries an add for a 5 MB winnie for $1000 for the Coco. Doesn't say whether controller is included (I suspect extra cost), but does say "complete with software drivers", so there must be some hardware to drive thru. The company, which seems to specialize in dirt-cheap floppy drives, etc, is called Software Support, Inc in Framingham, Mass. Anybody got any comments? mike k
sdyer@bbncca.ARPA (Steve Dyer) (03/24/84)
Software Support in Framingham MA has excellent and agressive prices for floppy
disk drives of all sorts. I have bought several double sided 40 and 80 track
drives from them, and I have always received fast and efficient service.
I get the feeling that their winchester drive for the CoCo might be a month
or so away--at least that is the impression I get when I visited there a few
weeks ago. I couldn't seem to get much "hard" information from them.
It seems that they'll be using a DTC SASI bus controller with their own CoCo bus
to SASI interface, but driver software is still an unknown. If I hear any
more firm information, I will forward it to this newsgroup.
As far as the company goes, I can only give them good marks. They are a high
volume, low priced mail order firm with good technical staff.
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/Steve Dyer
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