Apple Disk II, was Re: TRS-80 Model I

[Marvin Johnston]

> From: Liam Busey <buseyl at yahoo.com>

> > But for me the biggest problem was 
> > that the Apple couldn't read/write disks from other
> > machines, unlike the 
> > TRS-80, which used a WD1771 controller and could
> > handle any single-desity 
> > 5.25" disk (I spent many late nights getting it to
> > read the disks from 
> > the school's RML380Z computers, which also used 1771
> > controllers).
> 
> To be fair though, the Apple Disk II system was not
> the only game in town. While they weren't common, you
> could get a 3rd party 8" MFM floppy system if you
> wanted to.

Lobo Drives made drives for, among others, the Apple II including a neat box
with an 8" floppy drive and an 8" hard disk. They were given to me to sell on
Ebay, and then the guy passed away (same person who gave me all the Poly stuff,
and lots of other things before he died.) I have them set aside until either I
have the time to find out more about how to hook it up, or someone drops by who
knows what they are doing. My suspicion is that the hard drives probably have a
lot of interesting things from Lobo Drives, hence my caution. And I *think* I
have the controller card, but again, I need to research this stuff out.