New arrivals - NEC APC & Xerox 16/8

[Joe R.]

At 04:46 AM 8/3/05 -0700, you wrote:
>it might be a misnomer to designate the NEC APC as the
>only DOS computer to have built in 8" disk drives -
>although probably true - since others had external
>disks as standard options. I've just obtained one,
>along with external 5 1/4" drives to boot (no pun
>intended). As a matter of fact, I want to figure out
>just how to get it to boot off the 5.25's. Were there
>cards for an IBM PC or 100% compatible that interfaced
>to an external 8" floppy drive? 

   The Compaticards did.  I have another card that also does. It came from
some company by the name of Farmer IIRC. It's still in an IBM AT. I need to
set the CMOS on the PC and see if I can read the HD and find any drivers
for the card.


> The Xerox had 8" drives as options I've learned, but
>mine only has a built in 5 1/4. Actually, the
>expansion unit, which looks like the "cpu" has the
>drive, and a seemingly flakey hard drive. The O/S and
>development disks imaged fine, but other junk,
>Wordstar etc., didn't :(. I have a job on my hands
>figuring out how I'm going to hopefully archive the
>APC disks - 10 boxes of them - which is why I'd like
>to boot the thing off the 5 1/4's. Any suggestions?
>Anyone with software for these 2 beasts?

    Don Maslin :-(  I also have a couple of APC disks that I got from him.

    Joe
  
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