21 Sep
2014
21 Sep
'14
6:34 p.m.
On 09/21/2014 08:18 AM, Bill Degnan wrote:
Format complete, use SYS command from DOS to move boot
files to the disk to
make it bootable. Once you have the disk formatted it seems to work just
fine as a DOS diskette like any other, at least in my disk imaging system.
You can walk around and tell people you have a 8" boot drive on your PC, but
it's not as exciting to others as you might think.....ug. Anyway I made a
thread on my site about my adventures with imaging disks et al
http://vintagecomputer.net/browse_thread.cfm?id=561
Exactly. Except for the 77 vs. 80 cylinder issue, there should be no
problem using an 8" in place of a 5.25" HD drive.
Even Apple IIs had 8" third-party 8" drives available.
--Chuck