Hard Sector Diskettes, was Re: Northstar Horizon

Marvin Johnston wrote: I never had but a single type of floppy media for the single and double density Northstar controllers. I was lucky to have almost all Verbatim 10 sector disks and they worked fine. Unfortunately a lot of my 10 sector disks have apple stuff on them, as at one time there was a time you could get the hard sector diskettes a log cheaper than the better soft sector ones, and they worked fine. I don't have a working apple 2 with a cpm card to try to copy over to soft sector disks. Only thing I'd really keep is the bios source anyway. As to using 10 sector 8" diskettes, why? I put both a northstar and a tarbell in the same box, which was a northstar. I could boot from either controller depending on which format I wanted to be the "A" drive, and modified the bios to have the read / write code for both diskettes. No need for any unusual work on the diskettes. 5 1/4" diskettes were all northstar cpm, and the 8" ones were standard IBM ones read and written by the tarbell controller. Jim