8" hard sectored floppies

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Wed Jun 2 17:36:14 2004

On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, Frank Smith wrote:

> --On Wednesday, June 02, 2004 13:22:39 -0400 Damien Cymbal <d_cymbal_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Are hard sectored 8" floppies of any use to anyone? I've got several boxes of still shrink-wrapped SSSD hard sector disks. I've sold a couple boxes on epay, but action on them was lower than I'd imagined. Some folks who resell alot of 8" floppies
> > told me "good luck" because hard sectored just don't sell.
> >
> > I've seen new soft sectored disks advertised online for fairly hefty prices (don't know if they are selling at that price or not). What systems made use of these? Any that I might own or want to own some day that it'd be worth me holding on to these
> > if I can't sell them for a price worth it to drive to the post office and ship them?
>
> I'd be willing to buy a box or two of them to use in my Altair floppy drives if
> they are 32 sector floppies.
>
> Frank

To the best of my knowledge, all 8" hard sectored disk are 32
sector. The only difference is between the 'normal' hard sector
arrangement where the sector holes encircle the hub hole, whereas
the 'Vydec' compatible disks have the sector holes around the
periphery. They are not common, however.

                                                - don
Received on Wed Jun 02 2004 - 17:36:14 BST