Re: Apple IIe / 8 inch floppy drives

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tdiaz@NOGARBAGEhypermall.com (Tony Diaz) wrote:

In article <34B19B1B.6FA1@ix.netcom.com>, jcreid@ix.netcom.com wrote:

> John,
>   There was a card manufactured by Vista Computer Co.(now defunct) that
> allowed the Apple II to access a double density 8" drive.  The card was
> called the A800 and came with disks to patch into DOS 3.3, Microsoft CPM
> 2.20, and Apple Pascal 1.1.  I picked up one of these cards at a swap
> meet a number of years ago.  I don't know how popular they were, but I
> would suspect they made quite a few.  Good luck in your search.  If you
> find the card, I have the book and the disks.
> 
> -Jim

I have this SVA 8" card:

  www.apple2.org/images/InterfaceCards/Hard.FloppyDisk/SVA8InchDriveCTRL.JPEG

..as well as the Vista Computer card, but thats one that I have not come
across with the camera out yet. I do not have the manuals and disks for
it.

I do have a ProDOS driver for the SVA and Vista card buried someplace though.
My BBS' used to run off a couple 8" drives, and even with the ProDOS
driver, as well as the 20 Meg Corvus drive based on an 8" hard drive.

Tony
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I too have some of those cards (buried somewhere).
I'd like to get them working some day.
I don't recall exactly what I have. As I recall I have some docs and some
EPROMs as well as cards.
I'd like to hear from folks who have the cards, so when I get time to work with
the cards, I know who to ask for help.
:-)

Thanks.