8" hard sectored floppies

From: Ron Hudson <ron.hudson_at_sbcglobal.net>
Date: Fri Jun 4 05:41:58 2004

> On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Tom Jennings wrote:
> There used to be a popular folk myth that all single sided diskettes
> actually double sided ones that had failed testing on one side.
> I find it hard to believe that any company could be profitable
> with THAT high a failure rate!
>
I once worked in memorex in the tape plant where open reel tape was made
and that is exactly how it was done, raw tape was run through error
detecting
machines and sorted.
Received on Fri Jun 04 2004 - 05:41:58 BST

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