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Thank you all for the information. Having never used an 8" drive before, it has been very educational.

Rob, Thanks for the follow up answers and sharing your knowledge! I do think you would have a lot of viewers since this hardware is...

Thank you both for replying and sharing your information! Rob, That is awesome! You did an amazing job of restoring the 8280! It...

Has anyone used one of the Commodore 8" 8060 series or the 8280 series of disk drives? I hate to admit this, but I didn't even know...

Thank you all for the information! It has been interesting to read! In the book, Fire in the Valley, they mention that MS Basic was...

Thank you all for the information! I never knew the prices of the hardware and the issues involved. I also never thought about how much...

NeXT, Thanks for the information! I never realized that there were both dram and sram, but I can see why the sram board would have less...

Krebizfan, Thanks for the information! That is really interesting! May I ask a few follow up questions? In Fire in the Valley they...

If you happen to see my other post, I've been reading about the early days of the computer market during the 1970s. The books I've read...

I've been reading books on the early days of the computer market and many stated the MITS Altair 4k board did not work reliably...