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Re:“I would like to maintain the floppy driver” by DerekL on Friday August 02, 2019 @02:44PM (#20595492)
The TRS-80 Model II used them. Some CP/M microcomputers did too.
Re:“I would like to maintain the floppy driver” by pacman128 on Friday August 02, 2019 @03:12PM (#20595725)
I had an old Model II 8" drive I had pulled out of old machine that I used in the Intro to Computing class I taught in the 90's. It made a great prop to show how drives work. The read/write head was about the size of a matchbox.