reading mac 800k floppies, more complex than you'd think!
part of our floppy quest is we want to read mac 800k floppies - partially because there's a lotta good content out there on 800k floppies, and partially because we are still heading towards imaging the prince floppy (which, being 800k formatted made it a bit of a pain to read). 1.4MB floppies on mac are easily readable because by the time they got to 1.4MB apple stopped being clever with their disk formatting. but 800K floppies are really clever/freaky! unlike ibm pc formatting, there are not a fixed number of sectors per track. there's four groupings of tracks, and there are MORE sectors on…
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