Re: 8" disk for Apple II Question

["mrbrad" <mrbrad@ll.net>]

what would prob not be that large a job ..i'd like to see someone make a
copy/prototype board of the old contoller's that run these drives...

i've seen lobo 8" drives go on ebay but they want big bucks for them

but on the other hand i've seen more then a few shugart 8" drives on ebay in
vintage computer area

so maybe with some off the shelf componets a hacked ibm prototype card (the
hack for making  them the apple // size.can be done)
and an eprom builder some enterprising soul could offer the plans/and or
card on the group here

even if it was just instructions on a vanilla card from one of the old
clones would be a nice little project

i'd have the skill to follow the instructions but i don't have the skill to
make even this simple card...any takers...would be kinda cool to run up the
old //  with an 8' drive

just a thought

brad
www.lost-gonzo.com






"Greg Wildman" <greg@apple2.org.za> wrote in message
news: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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