Early 3.5" Floppy Drives

[Allison]

>
>Subject: RE: Early 3.5" Floppy Drives
>   From: Chris M <chrism3667 at yahoo.com>
>   Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 16:02:06 -0800 (PST)
>     To: "General Discussion: On-Topic Posts Only" <cctech at classiccmp.org>
>
>any clue who actually made 8" controllers for PC's? 
> One of my APC's has a controller board and external
>5.25" drives made by Butler Flats Associates. Not sure
>what capacity the 8" drives have (haven't played with
>them much yet), but I believe the resident controller
>used a 765 chip. The Butler Flats boards used some
>Western Digital chip. Funny.
>
>--- Barry Watzman <Watzman at neo.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> ...And there were 8" controllers for
>> early PCs.

Any PC controller that can do 720k 3.5" format can do 
8" as it's the same data rate.  it's not what chips was 
used it's how it was used.


Allison