Re: 8" disk for Apple II Question

[Greg Wildman <greg@apple2.org.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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