Re: Apple IIe / 8 inch floppy drives

[engel@numerik.math.uni-siegen.de (Michael Engel)]

John Rollins (rexstout@ptld.uswest.net) wrote:
: Well, I'm sitting here with a Shugart 801 and an Apple IIe. Is there any 
: way to hook them up?

There once was a project for building an 8" floppy interface in the
German c't magazine - must have been around 1986 ... 

The interface mainly consists of a WD2797 FDC with the usual support 
logic, some drivers for 56k CP/M for the Apple ][ were also available.
Unfortunately, the article is written in German, so it will probably
not of much help to you ...

: I have about 10 8" disks marked as CP/M disks for 
: the H/Z-89, but since I don't have one of those I'd like to try to see 
: what's on the disks using my Apple IIe. Assuming it's not too hard to 
: build the interface, how do I power the drive? It needs 120v and has a 
: strange(compared to what you can find now) power connector. Any ideas?

Can't help you with that, sorry.

regards,
	Michael Engel	(engel@unix-ag.uni-siegen.de)