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From: dyer@wivax.UUCP (Stephen Dyer)
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Subject: Re: Second coco drive
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Date: Thu, 5-Apr-84 10:23:20 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr  5 10:23:20 1984
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I would recommend purchasing a second drive from someplace other than
Radio Shack.  Software Support (I have plugged them before) in Framingham, MA
advertises in most of the CoCo magazines like Rainbow, Hot CoCo, and
Color Computer.  They are a fast, efficient mail order service familiar
with CoCos.

	Some of the (potential) advantages of a non-R/S drive are:

		better reliability
		higher step rate
		more tracks (40 vs 35)
		double sided operation

These last three require changes to the OS9 disk driver and/or descriptor,
but these changes are commonly available now for the CoCo.