origins of IBM 3740 diskette format

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Thu Feb 24 13:35:55 2005

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Tom Jennings wrote:

> 8" floppy:
> 77 tracks, 26 sectors/track= 2002 sectors
> 128-byte sector payload
>
> IBM punched card= 80 characters
>
> Isn't there some standard unit of IBM cards ("a box") that's 2000
> cards? My friend David says this is the reason for the format. He
> had some facts to back it up but that's now vapor in one ear (I
> think it went out the other but I can't remember).

Yes. A "standard" box of punch cards contains 2000 cards.

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