Re: 8" disk for Apple II Question

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

We even have about 150 8" disks available...

On Thu, 31 May 2001 07:23:03 -0700, Wayne Stewart wrote:

> I've seen 8" drives and controllers advertised in old A2 mags from about
> 1983 and earlier. I made a bid on ebay for one once but wasn't willing to
> go very high.
> I think they were up to 1.2mb in capacity and advertised as being
> compatible with DOS 3.3, CPM and Pascal. They never sold many and I think
> the early hard drives really cut into their sales and the 3.5" floppy
> killed them.
>
> Wayne
>
> Mark Cummings wrote:
>
>> I am just curious to know if the was ever an 8" floppy disk drive made for
>> the Apple II.
>> Why I ask, is that a friend I was speaking to said he remembers using an 8"
>> disk on an Apple II at school. Unfortunately he is not "Apple literate" so I
>> wonder whether it was even an Apple he was using. I've been following Apples
>> for nearly as long as they've been around and never heard of such a beast.
>>
>> If there was one, what sort of capacity and OS did it have ?
>>
>> Mark

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