Re:“I would like to maintain the floppy driver”
by gumby on Friday August 02, 2019 @05:02PM
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Ah, an obscure catch! Most of the 8" floppies were soft-sectored though I believe the original ones were hard sectored. I only once ever used a hard-sector drive + media.
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Re:“I would like to maintain the floppy driver”
by imglorp on Friday August 02, 2019 @05:13PM
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Yeah I actually had a couple machines that used them. One was an Altos something like this
http://www.vintage-computer.com/altos8000acs.shtml and the other was some single cabinet scientific job. I forget if the hard-sectored disks would work in a soft-sectored drive or not; perhaps it would just ignore the holes.