8" hard sectored floppies

(don't know if they are selling at that price or not). > What systems made use of these? I doubt if you will find any systems in use today using 8" hard sectored disks. The most recent used I noticed, was for IBM system/6 word processing. Soft sectored are still useful, depending on density etc. They were used extensively on IBM 374x data entry systems, and (after having put some data on them) on IBM 3540 readers. They were also used a lot on other systems, too many to mention. They came in various flavours : single or double sided, low or high density, capacity from 251K to 1.2 megs, sectorsizes from 128 to 1024 bytes. When used on IBM systems, track 0 was always written with 26 x 128 bytes, the rest could be different. Nico --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.693 / Virus Database: 454 - Release Date: 31-05-2004