>Now if we take one media, standard 300o 5.25 twosided 96/100tpi certifed
>we are now talking about litterally hundreds of formats most of which are
>incompatable not by any reason of media.
That's why I stick to IBM 3740 (8", 77 track, 26 sectors/track, 128 bytes/sec)
format - guaranteed cross-platform compatibility! I can still read
my floppies from 1973 just fine...
All "real" machines have 8" floppies and at least one 9-track drive here!
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Received on Mon Oct 04 1999 - 11:45:06 BST