Re: 8" disk for Apple II Question

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

Could the Disk II controller even work with them?  I would
have thought they would be MFM drives.  I know of a few
old systems that supported them like the TRS-80's.  I do
believe that they would be around 1.2 meg because the
TRS-80 machines used to advertise that.

Did the CP/M card have its own built in controller?  I believe
it might have worked with CP/M since it was a Z-80 computer
like the old TRS-DOS machines.

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"Wayne Stewart" <waynes@intergate.bc.ca> wrote in message
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> 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
>