Wern't the original Altair 8 inch drives hard sectored?
George
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George L. Rachor george(a)racsys.rt.rain.com
Beaverton, Oregon
I recently found a large number of hard sectored
8" disks and
I was hoping some one might knows what computers would use
these disks.
* Dysan 3740/2D, Double sided, Double density, format:
128 bytes/26 sectors, index 1 & 2. (I don't know if these are hard
sectored. There is just one index hole in the disk but two index
holes in the jacket)
* Memorex 3201-3015, Compatibility: Shugart, Write protect,
Single sided, Single density, Sectoring: 32 hard
(Just regular 32 sector hard sectored disks)
* Memorex 3071-2003, Single sided, Single density, Sectoring: hard
* Verbatim FD 65-9000-HR, Single side, Single density, Vydec/
Memorex compatible.
(These have 33 index holes in the disk, but they are
arranged around the out side edge of the disk. Also there is
a 1 1/2" x 1/2" notch cut out one of the corners of the jacket.)
I could not find a web page for Dysan, I searched Memorex's and
Verbatim's pages and I emailed Memorex and got no reply.
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Doug Coward dcoward(a)pressstart.com
Senior Software Engineer
Press Start Inc.
Sunnyvale,CA
Curator
Museum of Personal Computing Machinery
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