[vcf-midatlantic] External 8" harddisks

[Peter Cetinski]

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 at 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