Very cool! Regarding 8" floppy drives, it appears to be possible to connect an ancient 8" floppy disk controller such as a Western Digital FD1771[1] to fairly r

Very cool! Regarding 8" floppy drives, it appears to be possible to connect an ancient 8" floppy disk controller such as a Western Digital FD1771[1] to fairly recent 3.5" floppy drives (and older 5.25" drives) - the signals didn't change that much (though there may be some issues with RPM.)[2] There also appear to be hard disk emulators (based on the open source FreHD[3]) available for those machines as well[14]. Xenix on emulated HD sounds like a possibility. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Digital_FD1771 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Digital_FD1771 [2] https://www.retrotechnology.com/herbs_stuff/drive.html#threefive https://www.retrotechnology.com/herbs_stuff/drive.html#three... [3] http://www.vecoven.com/trs80/trs80.html http://www.vecoven.com/trs80/trs80.html [4] http://trs-80.com.au/trs80/emulator.htm http://trs-80.com.au/trs80/emulator.htm