8" hard sectored floppies

From: Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
Date: Thu Jun 3 18:47:25 2004

On Jun 3, 13:08, Fred Cisin wrote:
> > > I'm almost sure I've seen a 16 hard sectored 8 inch disk
someplace.
>
> On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, Don Maslin wrote:
> > I suppose that is possible, Dwight, but it may be a surprise to 3M!
>
> Although I do not have any examples handy, it would not surprise
> me at all to find out that there exist SOME media that weren't
> available from 3M!

The original IBM hard-sectored 8" floppies had 8 sectors, and I don't
think 3M ever made those :-)

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York
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