29 Mar
2010
29 Mar
'10
2:19 p.m.
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:53:29 -0700
From: derschjo at mail.msu.edu
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(As a related aside, is there *anywhere* one can
get hard-sectored 5.25"
floppies these days?)
You might check with the Heathkit H8 guys - It's been a while since I have
monitored that list, but I know that a couple of times in the past someone
on that list has organized a bulk order of 5.25" HS disks.
You could also program a little microcontroller
to time the index
pulses and "fake" the sector pulses, thereby allowing the use of
much-more-common soft-sector disks - A few people have done this
over the years, and I think at one point someone was offering a
little board to do it.
That also sounds like a fun option... once I verify that the machine
works with real media, this seems like the way to go.
Thanks!
Josh