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

[Steven N. Hirsch]

On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, Marvin Johnston wrote:

> 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.

I have a Lobo 8" drive controller and (I believe) the software also.  I 
think it was one of the earliest A2 peripherals to use DMA and was 
developed in the days of the II+.  Mine never worked properly on a 2e 
(don't recall if I tried it on II or II+).

Steve

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