Reading NorthStar Horizon hard sector disks on PC

Marvin Johnston marvin at west.net
Tue Jul 31 12:36:38 CDT 2007


> From: "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com>

> Not all Northstar diskettes are HS.  One of the models (Advantage?) 
> isn't--and it's that format that the Microsolutions MatchPoint will 
> read, not the others.  It's been too long since I've seen the darned 
> things...

I think the machine you are thinking of might be the N* Dimension. The Advantage
still uses 10-sector floppies.

I've never seen the Dimension but vintagemicros on Ebay was selling one a while
back and had a picture of it. Apparently it was MS-DOS compatible.



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