xerox 820-II boot disk

Dave Dunfield wrote: > You shouldn't need a lot of additional space. The adapter consists of a > 50-pin edge card connector (you can make this from a cut-down ISA connector > if you need), and the 34-pin connector salvaged from an old 5.25" drive > PCB. If your PC doesn't have one, you will also need a PC floppy cable > with a 5.25" drive connector. If you prefer, you could make the adapter > using a pin-header and connect directly to a 3.5" floppy cable. > > You already have the 8" drives in an enclosure with power supply. You > pop the cover off, sit your PC beside it with it's cover off, and run > the floppy cable from the PC to one of the 8" drives. > > Trickiest part is iirc the 820 has single-density on the system tracks > and many PCs can't do that. > > Depending on where you are located, there may be someone nearby with an > 8" <> PC setup who can make you the disk. (Where are you?)

Hi Dave, I'm also interesting in doing this, but for a Star, not an 820. I looked around on your site, but didn't see where the docs for making this interface are.

Also, would you know if your interface would work with reading Xerox Star 8" floppies from a PC?