Early 3.5" Floppy Drives - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

15 Dec 2005

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Subject: Re: Early 3.5" Floppy Drives
   From: Chris M <chrism3667 at yahoo.com>
   Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 16:16:02 -0800 (PST)
     To: "General Discussion: On-Topic Posts Only" <cctech at
classiccmp.org>

--- Allison <ajp166 at bellatlantic.net> wrote:

  I
 also have a two 
 edition article describing what it would take to put
 MSDOS (V3.3!)
 on a NON-PC 8088 system. 
 3.2 or .3 was available for the NEC APC III and the
Rainbow (I think). I'm not absolutely sure the NEC
version was APC III specific, though probably. The APC
III had a compatibility board called the SLE (Software
Library Expander). The thing I saw on ebay could have
been vanilla ms-dos but I kind of doubt it. 
Basically MY first comment was if you've the time any format 
is possible.

I know for a fact and have seen MSDOS 2.11 running on S100 
crates with mixed drives (both 5.25 and 8") using nothing 
but serial lines  (no monitors).  

Used to be a time where you could buy the programmers kit
and customize MSDOS just like CP/M-80.  Then MS decided 
they didn't want that.

Allison