8" hard sectored floppies

From: Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
Date: Fri Jun 4 02:30:55 2004

On Jun 3, 21:56, Don Maslin wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Pete Turnbull wrote:
>
> > 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?

I don't know. I've never actually seen one (except in photos), let
alone used one. I know they only held 80K, spun in the opposite
direction to modern floppies, were much thicker, and (for the customer)
were read-only.

http://www.computerworld.com/news/1999/story/0,11280,62286,00.html
http://history.acusd.edu/gen/recording/mag/p42.html

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York

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