8" hard sectored floppies

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Thu Jun 3 00:15:00 2004

On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:

> >From: "Don Maslin" <donm_at_cts.com>
> >
> >
> >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
> >
>
> Hi Don
> I'm almost sure I've seen a 16 hard sectored 8 inch disk someplace.
> Dwight

I suppose that is possible, Dwight, but it may be a surprise to 3M!

                                                - don
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