29 Sep
2011
29 Sep
'11
10:58 a.m.
On 29 Sep 2011 at 9:47, jim s wrote:
Chuck,
I came up with a box of floppies labeled for this system. I have a
box of 11 floppies with Fairchild labels in a Fairchild box.
If you still have the means and interest to look at this you are
welcome to them. I don't have a way to deal with them.
The base media is Verbatim 32 sector floppies.
How to get them to you intact is another question. I don't trust
shipping magnetics anymore.
I'll send one note to the list in case anyone else discovered anything
or wants to chime in, reply to me off list if you like to save
bandwidth, or reply here if you like and think it is interesting. JIm
Another data point for the Sentry would be welcome. The funny thing
about them was that they used hard-sector media, but recorded data in
soft-sector mode that didn't line up with the sector holes. Just
plain weird. My guess is that the platform started off on hard
sector, but then moved to soft sector recording, but tolerated HS
disks out of respect for the customer.
We sent them back and forth to Israel in a standard Fedex box. I
slipped them into an old 8" polyethylene floppy box but did nothing
special.
Remember that magnetic fields are a inverse-square sort of thing, so
wrapping about a half-inch of bubble wrap around the bundle before
you stick it into a box will do wonders.
Floppies, particularly the 8" kind, are very durable beasts.
--Chuck