Can't let the day end without a rather exotic floppy creature. Hard-sectored (16 sectors) floppy! The really goofy bit is that what could be read is actually still readable (it was a standard ProDOS 16-sector disk before data blocks went bad at random)

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I'm wondering if anyone has some Fileware...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_FileWare

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Apple FileWare - Wikipedia

Usually, original disks weren't "flippy", but there were cases where even Apple shipped these from the factory.

#AppleII #525FloppyDay

happy #525FloppyDay to those who celebrate!

Some of my #AppleII series originals

@gumnos Whoa, I have some too! Take these from the university dumpster a long time ago😃

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Happy 5.25 Floppy Day 2019!

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Oh, it's #525FloppyDay again and since I was just commenting on the lovely #RetroGaming mapping @ThreeOhFour does, here's the Japanese release of #MightAndMagic featuring a red disk and official graph paper!

For #525FloppyDay I chose to post a picture of a box with disks containing old a new software (as recent as 2000) for #apple2.

This box has been a bit of problem for me to read correctly and I think the problem lies that all my drives for archiving have their track 0 sensor calibrated correctly. This box of floppies have been likely written with an Apple Disk 2 - those don't have a track 0 sensor and the alignment can be all over the place.

I don't have a good plan on how to connect my Apple Disk 2 with a #greaseweazle right now, another solution could be to acquire another 40 track 5 1/4 inch drive and play with the track 0 sensor.
Another plan could be to acquire a calibration disk, so I can re-adjust my regular floppy drive I use for archiving, but these seem to be almost impossible to find. Suggestions welcome!

#softwareArchiving #retroComputing