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Originally Posted by DNSB
Converting formats was the way I paid for my hobby for quite a few years. One that really sticks in my mind involved 8" floppy disks from a late 1970s era word processor from ADDS. That was a fun conversion job since just reading the floppies called for writing a routine that could read the disk, display the directory and save files to to another disk -- who needs a standard format when we can invent our own? Old IBM EBCDIC 8" floppies and you no longer had the original system and need the content on 5.25" MSDOS floppies? Northstar hard sectored 5.25" floppies with content created by NorthWord that you now need on 3.5" floppies for your Compaq?
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There were Hard sectored 5.25" floppies? I knew about the 8" version, we built a paper tape emulator using the at TriData.
I remember the 5.25 floppies for the Apple Lisa that had 2 windows (the Lisa had 2 heads per side)