Comments on: [ Retro Scan of the Week ] The TRS-80 Model 12

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] The TRS-80 Model 12 by: Nicola

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 04:22:19 +0000

Never seen one either, but I'd love to get my hands on a little part of history…. one day

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] The TRS-80 Model 12 by: Frankie P

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:17:36 +0000

8″ floppies……Back in the mid-eighties I used them everyday for backups on an IBM System 36. Them was the days!

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] The TRS-80 Model 12 by: JayP

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 01:07:56 +0000

The local community college where my dad instructed Numerical Control machine tools had a system for computer aided machining. It was branded as a Bridgeport (as in the machine tools), had a color monitor with 2 8″ floppies.

No hard drive, had to swap disks every 5 minutes or so. At the time, all I wanted to do was play Pacman.

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] The TRS-80 Model 12 by: Dr. Iccapot

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:24:37 +0000

It was 1984 or 1985 when, for the first time, I 'played' with an Honeywell microSystem 6. I used it for about two years, while teaching COBOL in training courses for high school students. If i remember correctly, I used its 8″ disks just for booting…

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] The TRS-80 Model 12 by: Zoyous

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:02:24 +0000

In the mid-80s, our family had an Apple ][e. One of our cousins sent my brother and I an Infocom game (I don't recall which one) formatted for IBM PC on an 8″ floppy. I guess she thought there was just one software format that was interchangeable across all systems, or just wasn't clear on what type of computer we had. Anyhow, that was the first and last time I saw an 8″ floppy.

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] The TRS-80 Model 12 by: Derek Quenneville

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:16:19 +0000

I've only seen an 8 inch drive in use once, at a heating/cooling company in 1991. I think they were running an old version of FoxPro or FoxBASE.

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] The TRS-80 Model 12 by: Brian Deuel

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:59:57 +0000

Sorry… that was a "dual 8″ floppy drive 1MHZ 6809 Motorola Exorcisor development system"

http://www.dadgum.com/halcyon/BOOK/JARVIS.HTM

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] The TRS-80 Model 12 by: Brian Deuel

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:57:27 +0000

Before we got TRS-80 Model 3s at school, we had Model 1s with 8″ floppy drives. If you opened the drive latch just right, you could launch those floppies a good 20 feet!

Eugene Jarvis had a Motorola Exciser that VidKidz used to write the code for the coin-ops Stargate and Robotron. That had an 8″ floppy drive. The later blue box emulators that Atari used to write their coin-ops also had 8″ floppy drives (the earlier ones had paper tape!).

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] The TRS-80 Model 12 by: myce

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:34:59 +0000

I have an old 8 inch drive (plus enclosure) from Commodore at home. Can't check the model right now as I'm in the office but it should be a 8280. It looks like this (http://www.zimmers.net/cbmpics/dlieee2.html) or this (http://www.zock.com/8-Bit/D_CBM8280.HTML). I picked it up some years ago when I went to pick up an empty Apple ][ motherboard.

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] The TRS-80 Model 12 by: Warallen

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:53:32 +0000

I've never heard of an 8 inch floppy.
But I have lots of 3 1/2 & 5 1/4 laying around.