Disk structures explained from the 1980s

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Disk structures explained from the 1980s

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Just for the curious, the magazine Radio-Electronics published a two part article in 1987-1988 explaining floppy disks.
Of course that magazine always had a pro IBM/Apple stance and almost never talked about the C64 except in passing and often in a disparaging way.... so they only talk about IBM and Apple disk formats. But I still find it interesting.

It was actually a magazine within a magazine called Computer Digest, always fun to read what preoccupied or amazed us 30 years ago...

https://archive.org/download/radio_elec ... r_1987.pdf
Page 87 of the PDF.

https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-R ... 988-01.pdf
Page 84.


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Cool. Thanks for the links I will check them out.
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And here's an interesting link with an even lower level description.

http://www.madehow.com/Volume-1/Floppy-Disk.html
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