origins of IBM 3740 diskette format

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Thu Feb 24 16:06:12 2005

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Paul Koning wrote:

> Hey, that suggests a fun topic: oddball sector sizes.
>
> "Normal" sector sizes would include the obvious 512 bytes, and also
> 128 bytes for floppies.

256 is also very typical.

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