On 01/31/2012 09:19 AM, Tom Buskey wrote: > On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Jerry Feldman <g...@blu.org > <mailto:g...@blu.org>> wrote: > > On 01/30/2012 05:08 PM, Bill Freeman wrote: > > On 1/30/12, Ben Scott <dragonh...@gmail.com > <mailto:dragonh...@gmail.com>> wrote: > >> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:02 AM, OK? Im Deluxe! > >> <mwl+gnh...@alumni.unh.edu > <mailto:mwl%2bgnh...@alumni.unh.edu>> wrote: > >>>> What about `flopticals', LS-120s, etc.? > >>>> Were they partitioned like HDDs? > >>> Typically, no. Neither were any of the various tape devices that > >>> used the PC floppy drive controller interface. > >> Well, now, the hang-a-tape-drive-off-the-floppy-controller > thing was > >> something else entirely. As far as I know, there was never any > >> standard PC/BIOS/DOS/whatever interface for tape drives, so if > someone > >> made one of those they had to invent their own thing. > >> > >> But I find it interesting that the "super floppies" behaved like > >> floppies. My understanding is (was) that the PC had a rather > narrow > >> idea of what a floppy disk could be (360, 1.2, 720, 1.44, 2.88, > maybe > >> a few more). How did that work? > > There are at least four different meanings of "floppy" in use here: > > > > > > Floppy disks predated the PC. There were many different types, sizes > and formats. There were even floppies that had hard formatting (eg > holes). > The other difference between floppy devices and hard drives was > the side > of the FAT table. Floppies used a 12 or 16 bit FAT table. But, the > original IBM PC was a floppy-only product. > > > > FWIW, Solaris, SunOS do have an idea of partitions on floppies, but it > isn't used. I think Ultrix and OSF/1 (later Digital Unix, Tru64) did too. > > I don't think my Apple ][ floppies were ever partitioned, but I had > flippys :-/ > I agree. I don't think my Apple ][ floppies were partitioned. Back in the day there were a plethora of floppies. You had 8 in., 5 in. There were a number of Word Processors in the 70s that used floppies. The PC changed the landscape for both floppies and HDs, and also other removable media.
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