hard-sector 5 1/4 disk - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

29 Oct 2001

...
 >Anybody ever see anything that uses hard sector 5
1/4 disks? I've only
>ever 
>seen one in my lifetime - just curious if they were ever used anywhere
>else 
>(the one I saw was used to load microcode into a mainframe CPU) 
...
 I've got a Northstar Advantage that uses
them...anyone know where to get
hard sector disks these days? 
I was just about to say, I seem to recall that my old Northstar used them 
(although I can't remember if it was an Advantage or a Horizon, it was a 
black boxie CPM machine with screen, keyboard and floppy drive all in one 
unit).

I also think the Apple II had a hard sector option (had to load a special 
disk to activate it... or was that 13 sector... or are they the same 
thing?)

-chris

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