catch of the day & CPM disk format

From: Christian Fandt <cfandt_at_netsync.net>
Date: Thu Jan 21 08:14:37 1999

At 12:48 AM 1/21/99 +0000, you wrote:
>I found a box of old computer stuff today. I didn't think it was much till
   -- snip --
> The manuals HINT that all of this is for a CPM system. All the disks
>are hard sectored 5 1/4" disk with 11 index/sector holes.
>
> Q: What system other than North Star used hard sectored 10 sector disks?

Heath H-8 and H-89 computers. That would be the H-17 disk format. Both CP/M
and HDOS ran on these machines. Soft-sector format was the H-37.
Christian Fandt, Electronic/Electrical Historian
Jamestown, NY USA cfandt_at_netsync.net
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Received on Thu Jan 21 1999 - 08:14:37 GMT

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