Subject: Re: 8.5" drive for 11e
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From: apple2pd@ground.ecn.uiowa.edu (ISCA AppleII Librarian)
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Date: 31 Mar 1999 19:24:11 GMT
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From article <922837905.185539@atlas.onthe.net.au>, by "Disk wiz!" <datasafe9@hotmail9.com>:
> I need to get hold of a 8.5" drive to try and recover data from some disks.
> Please help with Sale, Loan or Hire!
> 
> Regards
> -BrianN
> 
> 

My first Apple II+ system included a SVA 8" disk controller, Lobo drive
enclosure with 1 Shugart 401(?maybe 451) 8" disk drive.  I eventually
added a second 8" drive.  I still have this system but I haven't used it
in many years.  I think the 2nd drive is now non-functional, but drive 1
still worked several years ago.  I still have several 8" disks too.  I
mostly used this system with Apple Pascal.  I think it worked with Dos3.2 and
Dos3.3 too.  I never did get drivers for ProDOS although I think some were
developed just before SVA (Sorrento Valley Associates) jumped out of the
Apple2 scene.  Someone used to post on csa2 until a couple years ago who
still used/had 8" drives, but the name escapes me at the moment.

My point is a few Apple2 users had 8" drives, some of us still have them
on our shelves, but I don't know the condition of mine.  Contact me if it
is really important to try to recover files, and let me know if it is Dos
or Pascal.  I can't help with ProDOS though, except I could possibly
physically read the disk blocks and manually recover files block by block.

For nostalgia, I just pulled out my receipt date 3/12/80.

  Apple II Plus with 48K bytes RAM               1,099.00
  Apple Language system with Pascal                385.00
  Apple Disk II - drive and controller             450.00
  Apple Communications card                        148.00
  Apple Clock/calendar card                        162.00
  8" floppy disk - drive and controller          1,450.00
  SSM AIO parallel/serial interface card           153.00
  Videotek RM12 color monitor                      699.00
  Cassette tape recorder (Panasonic #2108)          30.00
                                                 ========
  Total                                          4,576.00

I think the Apple clock/calendar was the Mountain Hardware Apple Clock card.
The 8" floppy combo was the SVA controller, Lobo dual drive enclosure, and
one Shugart 8" drive.

Those were the days!

  --Steve  (apple2pd@ground.ecn.uiowa.edu)

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 --Steve  (apple2pd@ground.ecn.uiowa.edu)