3 Jun
2004
3 Jun
'04
7:30 p.m.
On Jun 3, 21:56, Don Maslin wrote:
I don't know. I've never actually seen one (except in photos), let
alone used one. I know they only held 80K, spun in the opposite
direction to modern floppies, were much thicker, and (for the customer)
were read-only.
http://www.computerworld.com/news/1999/story/0,11280,62286,00.html
http://history.acusd.edu/gen/recording/mag/p42.html
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Pete Turnbull wrote:
> The original IBM hard-sectored 8" floppies had 8 sectors, and I
don't
think 3M ever
made those :-)
Do you know how they formatted them, Pete? Perhaps 512/sector?