32 sector 8" floppies

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Thu Jul 29 22:33:49 1999

On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, James Willing wrote:

> At 09:34 PM 07/29/1999, you wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> > I was going through some boxs of disk tonight and found a bunch of hard
> >sectored 32 sector 8" disks. Anyone have any idea what uses these? One of
> >them is a Tektronix disk and it says 8002 Tekdos (Z-80) the others all say
> >"ZAM" source code, edits, etc.
>
> Well... I suspect some of the early Tektronix development and perhaps Unix
> based systems, but the MITS Floppy Disk sub-system for the Altair computers
> used them.
>
> -jim
 
And various versions of Wang equipment, IIRC.
                                                 - don

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