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[Allison]

Fred Cisin wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Mar 2007, Chris M wrote:
>>  For fun, how's about we create a list of units that
>> had 8" drives. Off the top of my head:
>>
>> TRS-80/Tandy 2,12,16,6000
>> NEC APC
>> IBM System/23 Datamaster
>> Canon AS-100 (basically external,but all it's drives
>> were seemingly)
>> Xerox 16/8 (external)
>> ...and I'm tired already. Of course even the much more
>> modern IBM AS/400 had them as an option.
>> IBM Displaywriter
> 
> Altos
> CCS
> Colonial Data
> Compupro

  They were both 8and 16bit systems and MSdos was run from 8" on the 16bitters.

> Cromemco CDOS
> Cromemco Z2 (Micah)
> Exo SS
> Mega Super
> Morrow
> NEC APC, 9801
> NEC PC 8801a
> NEC APC H02
> Talos
> Tecmar
> TRS-80 Mod 2 Lifeboat
> TRS-80 Mod 2 Pickles and Trout
> Vista
> Xerox 820 II
> XOR
> Zenith Z89, Z90 w/ Magnolia SS
> Zenith Z100
> 
> There are a lot more.
> 
> --
> Grumpy Ol' Fred     		cisin at xenosoft.com
> 

Add:

  DECmate-1
  PDP-11 (various using RX01 and RX02)
  DEC PDT11/150 was a small box '11 with two 8" floppies.

  IBM S36 systems though I believe it was for IPL.
  Smaller (physical size) Wang systems

  There were a great many systems that used or were standard with 8"
  Floppies.


  Allison