Lisa Source Code

Eric Smith spacewar at gmail.com
Thu Apr 8 02:23:19 CDT 2021


On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 2:33 PM Chuck Guzis via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:

> Okay, I've got a WORM disc here--how do they propose to archive that?
> (recall that unwritten sectors can't be read).
>

Same for Apple DOS 3.1, 3.2, and 3.2.1 (13-sector format). The formatter
only writes the address fields, but no data fields. Apple fixed that (if
you consider it a defect) in the 16-sector format (DOS 3.3, Pascal, SOS,
ProDOS, GS/OS).


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