Re: Did Commodore cheat with the quad density floppies?

From: Rhialto <rhialto_at_falu.nl>
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2019 21:50:02 +0100
Message-ID: <20190105205002.GC1832@falu.nl>
On Sat 05 Jan 2019 at 14:44:46 -0600, Thom Cherryhomes wrote:
> in the 8" days, the standard format was IBM 3740, which, literally was just
> 73 tracks (with four spares), 128 byte sectors, 26 sectors per track.
> The 3741/3742 keying stations would read and write the sectors directly, as
> if they were just a stack of punched cards.

IBMs virtualsiation VM still performs communication from one VM to
another with virtual punch cards :) 

-Olaf.
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