On 12 Sep 2012 at 14:39, Ethan Dicks wrote:
Besides the "obvious" application of
reading/writing an ordinary "DOS
Floppy" (FAT12 filesystem, "720K" or "1.44MB" capacities), and
the
uncommon higher-density floppy format, what sorts of disks from what
sort of systems would be useful to read or write with this drive? CBM
8-bit-systems disks commonly use 256 bytes per sector, but they aren't
FM or MFM, they are GCR. Are there any CP/M systems that used 3.5"
media that this could read or write disks for?
Yes, but you don't run into them a lot unless you're in the CNC or
lab equipment business. For example, the Hitachi HPC-6000 or the
Mitsubishi EDM-J.
--Chuck