Early 3.5" Floppy Drives

[Chuck Guzis]

On 12/12/2005 at 9:08 PM Scott Stevens wrote:

>I have heard of (but not seen) machines with 8" floppies that run
>MS-DOS 1.x (not real sure what version).  I could probably
>contrive my MicroMint MPX-16 to behave in that fashion if I
>installed an 8" drive on it to do the conversion.  (would be
>tricky getting it to support 5-1/4" and 8" simulatneously, and
>maybe even impossible).

You may want to look at what the NEC APC did for MS-DOS and 8" drives.  I
think I've got a couple of original 8" MS-DOS diskettes for the APC, but I
don't recall what version.

Cheers,
Chuck