Apple disk controllers (was: Sharp MZ-80B boot disk

From: Frank McConnell <fmc_at_reanimators.org>
Date: Fri Dec 20 00:53:00 2002

Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
> > > seeing one that had some extra diagnostics and stuff. And, of course,
> > > there was the Sorrento Valley Associates board that did MFM in Apple][
>
> On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Sellam Ismail wrote:
> > Ooh, juicy! Where can I get one of those?
>
> It's been a while since I've seen one. They were mostly pushed in the 80s
> for being able to connect 8" drives!

There was also a Vista 8" floppy controller for the Apple ][, built
around the WDC 1793 I think. I have one of those in a Basis 108.

-Frank McConnell
Received on Fri Dec 20 2002 - 00:53:00 GMT