25 Nov
2006
25 Nov
'06
5:44 p.m.
Marvin Johnston wrote:
A couple of questions pop up on this Northstar
diskette discussion. First, was
the oersted rating the same for all of the N* Horizon (and Advantage?)
diskettes? And to expand it a bit, what about other hard sectored diskettes ...
Heathkit, Vector Graphic, etc. And what about the 8" floppies? My knowledge in
this area is nil and I don't recall ever having read anything.
Second, it seems to me that someone has already made a punch for modifying
soft-sectored floppies to hard sectors. As Tony says, it shouldn't be hard to
do. As such, would there be much of a demand for such punches?
Here is a page showing a jig to make 10 sector 5.25" disks, by Heiko
Heinz, for his Wang 2200 PCS-II, although it would work for any computer
needing such disks:
http://www.homecomputermuseum-xanten.de/Homecomputer%20neu/Computers/Wang/W…
Here is the link to the rest of Heiko's pages:
http://www.homecomputermuseum-xanten.de/index.htm