16 Apr
1997
16 Apr
'97
6:20 p.m.
On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, this arrived on the list from
the esteemed Mr. Carl R. Friend:
With all due respects to Mel Brooks
and Mr. Carl R. Friend
and Rush Limbaugh: "Ditto! Mega-Ditto"
BC
On Wed, 16 Apr 1997 22:23:30 -0400, this arrived on
the list from
the esteemed Mr. Allen Underdown:
All very well and good, but there's that one extra you forgot
about. ;-) 8-)
In the olden days of magnetic floppy media, there
was a sector hole
FOR EVERY SECTOR located around the hub of the floppy.
All very well and good, but there's that one extra you forgot
about. ;-) Yes, hard-sectored disks _do_ have a hole to denote
the beginning
of each sector, but to indicate the beginning of a _track_ they use
two adjacent holes. In soft-sectored disks, the single hole serves
to signal the beginning-of-track; the individual sectors are defined
via headers recorded during the format operation.
And one in the middle!
God I love
reading this list!
With all due respects to Mr. Mel Brooks: "Ditto!"