In article <20000429002624.90378.qmail_at_hotmail.com>, David Vohs
<netsurfer_x1_at_hotmail.com> writes
>Someting else intresting about those disks: The "CONTENTS" section is
>actually a *directory*!
Interesting, I had wondered why it seemed to be in hex.
>Many IBM minis & mainframes that used FDD's did not
>have an FAT on the disk! The result: you had to provide the track & sector
>location on every disk access!
Sounds tedious, surely that was impractical wasn't it? Wouldn't it
require the operator to keep a hand written directory in order to tell
it where to make the next write?
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Regards
Pete
Received on Sat Apr 29 2000 - 05:29:32 BST