Did any of the early micros ever get external 8" harddrives as an upgrade option? I vaguely remember receiving a large 8" external SCSI drive in the early 1990s for my BBS that was already very old. I don't remember hearing though of any 8" harddisks being sold in magazines or advertised for atari 8bit, c64, apple // back in the day.. Any idea when the last 8" harddisks were manufactured? (Wikipedia lists 1998 for 5.25" drives, but nothing for the 8" form factor). Thanks :) John
Priam made an external 8” hdd system for the IBM PC and Apple Lisa called the Data Tower. It used a special interface cards and had a built in tape drive. On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 10:22 AM John Heritage via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Did any of the early micros ever get external 8" harddrives as an upgrade option?
I vaguely remember receiving a large 8" external SCSI drive in the early 1990s for my BBS that was already very old. I don't remember hearing though of any 8" harddisks being sold in magazines or advertised for atari 8bit, c64, apple // back in the day..
Any idea when the last 8" harddisks were manufactured? (Wikipedia lists 1998 for 5.25" drives, but nothing for the 8" form factor).
Thanks :) John
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The first Radio Shack hard drive for the Model II had an 8” Shugart HD. Pete
On Jun 21, 2020, at 1:21 PM, John Heritage via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Did any of the early micros ever get external 8" harddrives as an upgrade option?
I vaguely remember receiving a large 8" external SCSI drive in the early 1990s for my BBS that was already very old. I don't remember hearing though of any 8" harddisks being sold in magazines or advertised for atari 8bit, c64, apple // back in the day..
Any idea when the last 8" harddisks were manufactured? (Wikipedia lists 1998 for 5.25" drives, but nothing for the 8" form factor).
Thanks :) John
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