22 May
2006
22 May
'06
4:19 a.m.
On Sunday 21 May 2006 06:57 pm, Fred Cisin wrote:
That may be the source of the confusion, I saw a fair number of those
machines, since we had our shop in a building where the landlord was an
Osborne dealer, but I almost never saw a SD machine.
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> The most
common 5.25" SSSD format is that of the Osborn.
> 10 sectors per track, with 256 bytes per sector.
On Sun, 21 May 2006, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
I don't recall the SPT offhand, but the
Osbornes used 1024-byte sectors.
The Osborne SD was 10 SPT, with 256 bytes per sector.
The Osborne DD was 5 SPT, with 1024 bytes per sector.