Hard Sector Disks

From: Marvin <marvin_at_rain.org>
Date: Thu Jan 21 10:01:00 1999

Christian Fandt wrote:
>

> > 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.

My understanding from they guy I got an H-8 from was that both hard and soft
sector disks were used. In this case, it started out with the hard sectored
disks, and then a conversion was added to change to the soft sectors. I
have no idea though of what the timing was as to when the soft sector
conversion became available.
Received on Thu Jan 21 1999 - 10:01:00 GMT