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

13 Dec 2005

APC and the Xerox 16/8 had 8inch drives as an option.
So did the Canon as-100 *very rare*. Dave Dunfield has
Dos 2.? for the APC on his site.
--- cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org <cclist at sydex.com>
wrote:
...
  On 12/12/2005 at 9:08 PM Scott Stevens wrote:

 >I have heard of (but not seen) machines with 8" floppies that run
...
  >MS-DOS 1.x (not real sure what version).  I could
probably
...
  >contrive my MicroMint MPX-16 to behave in that
fashion if I
...
  >installed an 8" drive on it to do the
conversion.  (would be
...
  >tricky getting it to support 5-1/4" and
8" simulatneously, and
...
  maybe even
impossible).  
 You may want to look at what the NEC APC did for MS-DOS and 8" drives.  I
...
  think I've got a couple of original 8" MS-DOS
diskettes for the APC, but I
...
  don't recall what version.

 Cheers,
 Chuck

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