Oddball sector sizes was Re: origins of IBM 3740 diskette format

From: Nico de Jong <nico_at_FARUMDATA.DK>
Date: Thu Feb 24 23:58:03 2005

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> 256 is also very typical.
> Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer
Festival

The most hilarious I've come across, was 400 (or was it 410). This was used
on the Philips PTS 6000 series with the TOSS operating system, used mainly
in banking front office applictions and the like.
It used 8" SSSD floppies. The 400 was reached by spanning 4 128-byte
sectors. The remaining bytes? Lost forever.

Nico
Received on Thu Feb 24 2005 - 23:58:03 GMT