Re: 8" disk for Apple II Question

[Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.bc.ca>]

I've seen 8" drives and controllers advertised in old A2 mags from about 1983
and earlier. I made a bid on ebay for one once but wasn't willing to go very
high.
I think they were up to 1.2mb in capacity and advertised as being compatible
with DOS 3.3, CPM and Pascal. They never sold many and I think the early
hard drives really cut into their sales and the 3.5" floppy killed them.

Wayne

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