johnm@dartvax.UUCP (John Meier) (11/26/83)
I would like to disagree with the message that compared hard sectored floppies with atari cartridges. As far as I knew, a hard sectored diskette was only different from a soft sectored diskette because a hard sectored disk drive required index holes at every sector whereas a soft sectored disk drive has one index hole on the complete disk. Old NorthStar drives were hard sectored and they were definitel read/write. The word soft probably came about because you could put as many sectors as you wanted on a soft-sectored diskette, but you could only put N sectors on a N hard sector diskette. John Meier Dartmouth College