8" hard sectored floppies

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Thu Jun 3 23:56:28 2004

On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Pete Turnbull wrote:

> 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 :-)

Do you know how they formatted them, Pete? Perhaps 512/sector?

                                                - don
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