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From: donm@pnet07.cts.com (Don Maslin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Hooking up an old 8" drive
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Date: 15 Dec 90 19:05:02 GMT
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v078p6g8@ubvmsa.cc.buffalo.edu (Richard M Wasserman) writes:
>system (nothing fancy - no networking etc.).  My two fold question is - does
>anyone Know how I might use the 8" drive I have to facilitate this (ie how can
>I hook it up to an IBM) and secondly are there any pd or commercial text
>filters out there to convert from Wang wordproccessor format to lets say 
>WordPerfect.  Any replies would be greatly appreciated either on how to do the
>above or on any way to cheaply convert the 8" Wang disks over to 3 or 5-1/4
>using a service or whatever.  Direct replies would also be greatly appreciated
>since I don't often read this group.  Thanks in advance.


Yes, it is possible to connect an 8" drive to a PC, but it is not practical
for the use that you have in mind.  Wang uses hard sector 8" diskettes in their
systems, and no PC controller that I am aware of can read a hard sector
diskette.

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