Wern't the original Altair 8 inch drives hard sectored?
George
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George L. Rachor george_at_racsys.rt.rain.com
Beaverton, Oregon
http://racsys.rt.rain.com
On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, Doug Coward wrote:
> I recently found a large number of hard sectored 8" disks and
> I was hoping some one might knows what computers would use
> these disks.
>
> * Dysan 3740/2D, Double sided, Double density, format:
> 128 bytes/26 sectors, index 1 & 2. (I don't know if these are hard
> sectored. There is just one index hole in the disk but two index
> holes in the jacket)
>
> * Memorex 3201-3015, Compatibility: Shugart, Write protect,
> Single sided, Single density, Sectoring: 32 hard
> (Just regular 32 sector hard sectored disks)
>
> * Memorex 3071-2003, Single sided, Single density, Sectoring: hard
> * Verbatim FD 65-9000-HR, Single side, Single density, Vydec/
> Memorex compatible.
> (These have 33 index holes in the disk, but they are
> arranged around the out side edge of the disk. Also there is
> a 1 1/2" x 1/2" notch cut out one of the corners of the jacket.)
>
> I could not find a web page for Dysan, I searched Memorex's and
> Verbatim's pages and I emailed Memorex and got no reply.
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Received on Thu Jul 02 1998 - 16:32:21 BST