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Comment by gumby

You are forgetting 8” floppies. IBM used only the soft sector ones (one hole punched close to the spindle to mark sector 0) but there were also hard sector ones (a ring of 32 holes close to the spindle hole).

There was a lot of experimentation back in those days. The Wikipedia’s page on floppy disks is surprisingly long!

parent gumby 1 month ago

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