8" Apple Disks?

Marvin Johnston marvin at rain.org
Sun Jul 3 15:51:00 CDT 2005


This makes sense since he also has quite a bit of Lobo Drives stuff
including two Lobo HD/8" Floppy units and a dual Lobo 8" floppy unit.
One of the floppies had "CP/M" in the description, so it sounds like I
need to take care to keep stuff together.

And I will certainly keep my open for SVA and other Apple II controllers
... now that I know they exist :).

Thanks for the responses!

> > Did Apple ever [...] support 8" drives?

> (Typically they were used for interchange with CP/M systems, although
> I know of a few used to exchange RT-11 and UCSD stuff.)
> 
> The brands I remember are Vista and Lobo.  I think Lobo had patches
> for 8" drive access via Microsoft Softcard and CP/M.
> 
> Tim.


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