10 Sep
2023
10 Sep
'23
12:52 p.m.
On 9/10/23 12:39, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
On Sun, 10 Sep 2023, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
Got some of those in my rogue's gallery too. The thing that seems to be
lost on many is that legacy (i.e. Shugart-interface) floppy drives are
very dumb devices. Pretty much don't care what you put on them, so long
as it satisfies the bandpass requirements.
--Chuck
There are 40 track derivatives; used for word
processing, particularly
on some Brother models. No big deal; when reading those, one simply
double-steps a "normal" drive. In any case, as far as I recall, they
all used Brother's proprietary GCR encoding. I've processed a couple
hundred of those.
With the exception, the Epson Geneva PX8 40 track 3.5" was MFM