28 Apr
2000
28 Apr
'00
10:29 p.m.
In article <20000429002624.90378.qmail(a)hotmail.com>om>, David Vohs
<netsurfer_x1(a)hotmail.com> writes
Someting else intresting about those disks: The
"CONTENTS" section is
actually a *directory*!
Interesting, I had wondered why it seemed to be in hex.
Many IBM minis & mainframes that used FDD's did
not
have an FAT on the disk! The result: you had to provide the track & sector
location on every disk access!
Sounds tedious, surely that was impractical wasn't it? Wouldn't it
require the operator to keep a hand written directory in order to tell
it where to make the next write?
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Regards
Pete