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Re: 8" disk for Apple II Question
- Subject: Re: 8" disk for Apple II Question
- From: "Paul R. Santa-Maria" <paul@wccnet.org>
- Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 17:03:24 -0400
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com
- References: <3b161c14@news.iprimus.com.au>
- Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.sys.apple2:8320
Now that Google has the old Deja News archives back online, you can go to
http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search and search the newsgroups
comp.sys.apple2.* for "8 inch drive" and get lots of information. Two
companies mentioned are Vista and Lobo, and the OSs mentioned are DOS 3.3,
CP/M, and Apple Pascal.
--
Paul R. Santa-Maria
Monroe, Michigan USA
"Mark Cummings" <NOTfigjams@primus.com.au> wrote in message
3b161c14@news.iprimus.com.au">news:3b161c14@news.iprimus.com.au...
> 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 ?