From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 17 10:46:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA27803 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 10:46:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dfw-ix7.ix.netcom.com (dfw-ix7.ix.netcom.com [206.214.98.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA27797 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 10:46:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from smap@localhost) by dfw-ix7.ix.netcom.com (8.8.4/8.8.4) id MAA00738; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 12:46:22 -0500 (CDT) Received: from chi-il6-21.ix.netcom.com(199.35.203.213) by dfw-ix7.ix.netcom.com via smap (V1.3) id rma000718; Wed Sep 17 12:46:06 1997 Message-ID: <341F5DD1.4A22@ix.netcom.com> Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 00:35:27 -0400 From: Richard Scranton Reply-To: scrantr@ix.netcom.com Organization: LDA Systems, Columbus X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, dkelly@hiwaay.net Subject: Re: questions-digest V3 #420 References: <199709162212.PAA23604@hub.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Tandy Model II/16 computers (Z80 and 68k in one box) used 8-inch drives. Maybe a local Tandy user group could steer you towards a "technology historian" still using one? > > At the very least this should be good for a laugh, but the boss dug up > > about 50 8" floppies and wants the data off of them and onto modern > > media. From way back, I recal the 1.2M floppy hardware interface wasn't > > terribly different from the 8". Where both 8" and 1.2M disks turn > > 360 RPM vs 300 RPM for 360k disks. Maybe there is a chance an 8" drive > > can be attached to my FreeBSD system? > -- =================================================================== Richard Scranton - LDA Systems - Information Management Consulting scrantr@ix.netcom.com Columbus Cincinnati Cleveland Toledo Atlanta