Re: 8.5" drive for 11e

[labelas@hotmail.com (Labelas Enoreth)]

In article <19990331111425.18123.00000176@ng-cd1.aol.com>,
dougkalley@aol.combunk (DougKalley) wrote:

> >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.
You know, I saw a dual 8" external drive at a garage sale a few months ago
and thought "No. Don't get it. I don't really _need_ it"...it seems like
all the interesting stuff that I decide not to get ends up being what I
decide later I should have gotten.