Hard Sector Diskettes, was Re: Northstar Horizon

[Jim Battle]

Marvin Johnston wrote:
> A couple of questions pop up on this Northstar diskette discussion. First, was
> the oersted rating the same for all of the N* Horizon (and Advantage?)
> diskettes? And to expand it a bit, what about other hard sectored diskettes ...
> Heathkit, Vector Graphic, etc. And what about the 8" floppies? My knowledge in
> this area is nil and I don't recall ever having read anything.
> 
> Second, it seems to me that someone has already made a punch for modifying
> soft-sectored floppies to hard sectors. As Tony says, it shouldn't be hard to
> do. As such, would there be much of a demand for such punches?

Here is a page showing a jig to make 10 sector 5.25" disks, by Heiko 
Heinz, for his Wang 2200 PCS-II, although it would work for any computer 
needing such disks:

http://www.homecomputermuseum-xanten.de/Homecomputer%20neu/Computers/Wang/WANG-2200-PCS-II-Zusammenbau-Bild-30.htm

Here is the link to the rest of Heiko's pages:

http://www.homecomputermuseum-xanten.de/index.htm