[cctalk] Re: Valuable floppy archiving: seeking current best practice

On Tue, 8 Oct 2024, roger arrick via cctalk wrote: Well, that's the CP/M "standard"., and, admittedly, on my first look at the message, I, too, did a double take on "double density" I once had a brief discussion with Gary Kildall, in which I pleaded with him to create a "secondary" standard for 5.25". He replied, "THE CP/M standard is Single Sided Single Density." He felt that people, disunirregardless of which hardware they were using SHOULD be able to transfer back and forth with 8" SSSD So, we ended up with thousands of 5.25" formats. The original poster was NOT CP/M, so 8" SSSD was not applicable. He said: -- Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com