hard-sector 5 1/4 disk

From: Eric Chomko <vze2wsvr_at_verizon.net>
Date: Mon Oct 29 23:28:27 2001

Northstar Computers used to use them for their disk systems. They were
CP/M based systems, and the one I saw was hooked to a Sol-20.

Eric

Jim Donoghue wrote:

> Anybody ever see anything that uses hard sector 5 1/4 disks? I've only ever
> seen one in my lifetime - just curious if they were ever used anywhere else
> (the one I saw was used to load microcode into a mainframe CPU)
Received on Mon Oct 29 2001 - 23:28:27 GMT