DOS/Windoze will have absolutely no idea how to understand what is on the
disk.
On Fri, 2 Feb 2018, Terry Stewart wrote:
Makes me thinks of the time a few months ago when a lab on our campus
wanted me to read some 8 inch disks in the archives for them. The IT
manager said "I think they are IBM-compatible" (and by that he meant IBM-PC
compatible i.e MS-DOS). I thought "yea, right."
They weren't of course.
But, you have to tread very carefully. Because SOMETIMES [now rarely],
they could mean the PRE-5150 definition where "IBM compatible" meant
3740/SSSD 8" with 128 byte sectors.
5150 really was a danger to itself and/or others; it totally destroyed the
meaning ot "IBM compatible" disks.
