8 Jun
2014
8 Jun
'14
9:35 a.m.
On Jun 7, 2014, at 9:13 PM, Rick Bensene <rickb at bensene.com> wrote:
I'd be interested in the same. I have a Northstar
Horizon that has been
idle for long time for want of boot media and some spare floppies. The
hard sector 5 1/4" floppies seem to be nearly unobtainium.
Some of the people on the Society of Eight-Bit Heathkit Computerists group
(http://sebhc.lesbird.com/) apparently made a jig that lets them convert soft sector
floppies into hard sector floppies. As I understand it, it's just a large circular
plate with holes in the right place. You clamp the floppy in it lined up with the existing
index hole, then turn it by hand and punch the additional holes. I keep thinking it sounds
simple enough I should try to make one on my mini CNC.
http://www.athana.com/ also supposedly sells hard sector floppies too, but I have no idea
of the pricing, I haven't ordered anything from them. I was pointed there from a
RetroBattlestations post several weeks ago.
Chris Osborn
http://insentricity.com