Re: 8" disk for Apple II Question

["william strutts" <wrstrutts1@home.com>]

Apple II's with 8 inch drives?????  The only machine I
recall with one of those beast is the TRS-80 Model II,
12, 16, and 6000 systems.  They were 1.2 meg or some
such format.  I have seen Xerox 8 inch drives in the used
computer stores but I don't know what machine they
were used in.  I don't think the Apple can format them
with the current controllers.  They would probably be
MFM drives and hence incompatible with Apple's. I
could be wrong.  They may have made such a thing
but I have never seen any references to them.  The
only formats I know of are DOS 3.2 format 13 sector
format, DOS 3.3 16 sector format, and Prodos
formatted disk which were all 5.25" formats.  Prodos
also supports the 3.5" format in 800k disk.  With
a special controller, you can format 1.44 meg IBM
type drives.  The Apple IIe manuals don't mention
them either.
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"Mark Cummings" <NOTfigjams@primus.com.au> wrote in message
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> 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
>
>