CLASSICCMP digest 25

From: John R. Sowden <amsentry_at_microweb.com>
Date: Wed Apr 16 20:14:27 1997

At 20:51 4/16/97 -0400, you wrote:
>> I have a box (about 250-300) of hard-sector 5=BC"
>> disks. Anyone interested??? Sell/trade/???
>
>What are "hard-sector" disks? Not the same as a 5.25 floppy?
> mhop_at_snip.net
>
>
hard sewctore means that there are 13? holde in the disk for the drive led
to read to determine where a sector starts. A soft sectore disk hs one hle
(like the IBM type disks used today. A popular user of hard sector disks
was NorthStar Computers.

John


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