Re: 8" disk for Apple II Question

[Stephen Shaw <stephen@apple2.org.za>]

No, they used a custom controller which used the same floppy drive controller
chip that early IBM PCs used for their MFM floppies.

On Thu, 31 May 2001 15:52:41 GMT, william strutts wrote:

> Could the Disk II controller even work with them?  I would
> have thought they would be MFM drives.  I know of a few
> old systems that supported them like the TRS-80's.  I do
> believe that they would be around 1.2 meg because the
> TRS-80 machines used to advertise that.
>
> Did the CP/M card have its own built in controller?  I believe
> it might have worked with CP/M since it was a Z-80 computer
> like the old TRS-DOS machines.

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