knudsen@ihnss.UUCP (03/16/84)
Okay. I didn't really expect to get away with 80 track storage, but I thought it was worth checking out for these reasons: 1) Really understanding the har & firmware, as for writing own special disk drivers 2) Obvious utility in cracking protection schemes 3) Aid in salvaging data from a disk written on another drive that was way out of alignment (by more than 1/4 track); you could get closer to the data using the in-between positions. Companies that sell copy-protected software without backup copies should be stoned to death. We all gather around them with our rocks; the Coco owner who has never accepted or given copyrighted pirate software gets the 1st throw. Sounds like a dull afternoon. mike k
dyer@wivax.UUCP (Stephen Dyer) (03/17/84)
BTW, if you are interested in using REAL 80tk drives with CoCo, it works just fine. I have two double-sided 80tk drives, and one 40tk drive running OS9, and it is truly wonderful to have a large /d0/cmds area (UNIX hackers, read "/bin). What's more, an 80tk drive is not substantially more expensive than a 40tk drive. One DS/DD 40tk drive with power supply and case will set you back about $300 (I got mine at Software Support in Framingham, MA.) This is no more expensive than the suggested list price of the grossly inferior Radio Shack 35tk single-sided drive. /Steve Dyer