Early 3.5 Floppy Drives

[Chris M]

APC and the Xerox 16/8 had 8inch drives as an option.
So did the Canon as-100 *very rare*. Dave Dunfield has
Dos 2.? for the APC on his site.
--- cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org <cclist at sydex.com>
wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> 


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