Re: LOBO Disk Drive Unit 8" & 5 1/4

[Roy and/or Janet Miller <millers@inetnebr.com>]

Lobo also sold stuff for the TRS-80, later doing their own DOS for that
series, and a clone of the model 1.

Roy Miller

"Robert J. Stevens" wrote:
> 
> I posted this on the Atari page.
> I have a LOBO Disk Drive Unit 8" & 5 1/4 but no Manuals. If my memory
> serves me correctly this was for the ATARI ????
> Bob in Menomonee Falls near Milwaukee Wisconsin
> Then I Just received this.
> Lobo sold an 8" drive for Apple II computers. It came with a controller
> card for the 8" drive and a 5 1/4 inch drive which hooked up to the
> Apple Disk II controller. If memory serves me correctly you had to boot
> off of a 5 1/4" inch drive using the software from Lobo before you could
> access the 8"
> drive. The controller card is hard to find.
> 
> What I have is not the 8" drive itself but a Drive Interface unit that
> has an 20 pin edge cable on the input side and two outputs on the other
> They are of the edge type one is 50 pin marked 8" and the other is 34
> pin marked Mini drive. It also has two serial outputs both DB25. Plus a
> rom switch. This might well be for a TRS 80.
> 
> Can anyone add to this.
> Bob