Date   : Wed, 13 Apr 1988 20:22:00 GMT
From   : clio!berger@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu
Subject: 8" floppy drive probles

Perhaps the place in Lubbock that you were thinking of was Texas
Instruments.  In any case, 8" floppy disk drives are still manu-
factured and still very easy to get ahold of... except possibly
at Radio Shack.

As for which of the computers you listed would be a good buy, that
depends highly on price, condition, features, and what you plan to
use it for.  The Xerox 820 is widely supported by the users, and
widely available at hamfests and from surplus dealers.  I'd avoid
the Radio Shack/Tandy computers.  Their CP/M was not really standard,
due to hardware constraints on memory locations.


                       Mike Berger
                       Department of Statistics 
                       Science, Technology, and Society
                       University of Illinois 

                       berger@clio.las.uiuc.edu
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