Re: 8" disk for Apple II Question

["Mark Cummings" <NOTfigjams@primus.com.au>]

Thanks for all those great reply's. I should never have doubted that an 8"
drive was made for the Apple ][, almost everything else was, so why not an
8" drive.

Mark


Greg Wildman wrote in message <9fabil$n7n$1@venus.itns.co.za>...
>On Thu, 31 May 2001 08:17:00 +1000, 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
>
>Yep, I have one. It is quite a huge beast that has two 8" drives. It is
labeled
>'MegaStor' and is made by Vlasak Computer Systems. It also has a sticker on
the
>front saying 'Compatible with Apple ][ Computer' with a picture of the
British
>flag.
>
>It connects to my ][e with a 50pin ribbon cable to a full length controller
>card. The card is labeled 'DUAL DENSITY DISK CONTROLLER' and 'SORRENTO
VALLEY
>ASSOCIATES' with a serial number of 675. The rom chip has a sticker on it
with
>'DDF 2-9'.
>
>I have not used these drives for a while as I never got it to work with
ProDOS.
>Using Dos3.3 it would store about 1MB which was huge in those days :-)
>
>--
>Greg
>
>
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