8" hard sectored floppies

From: Joe R. <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
Date: Thu Jun 3 20:20:10 2004

At 04:02 PM 6/3/04 -0700, you wrote:
>On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Joe R. wrote:
>
>> At 01:08 PM 6/3/04 -0700, Grumpy Ol' Fred 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!
>>
>> Let's see; IBM, Tektronix, Verbatim, Memorex, Digital, Maxell, Intel,
>> Centech, Radio Shack, Data Systems. That's just some that I have laying
>> around the house.
>
>I doubt Digital, Intel and Tektronix made their own floppies. They're
>just branded with their stickers.

  Ah, I was wondering when somebody would come up with that. The subject
was what disks were AVAILABLE, not who made them. FWIW I doubt RS, Centech
and a lot of the big companies made their own either.

  Joe
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