Re: 8.5" drive for 11e

[dougkalley@aol.combunk (DougKalley)]

>Eight inch drives predate the Apple II, and were rarely if ever used
>(possibly with some really early CP/M cards; I've also used them with a
>Nestar file server - the disks are still sitting in my cupboard, but are
>probably dead by now).

There were quite a few 8" drive controllers around for the apple ][ in the
early eightees, that used a variety of drive configurations. These were used
with the apple in native mode with it's dos, not needing a coproccessor card.

dougk