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Brings back great memories of Sierra’s King’s Quest and swapping out floppies as you reach different parts of the game. 2 seconds was definitely the minimum tim
by bobx11 7y ago
Brings back great memories of Sierra’s King’s Quest and swapping out floppies as you reach different parts of the game. 2 seconds was definitely the minimum time I would imagine being able to put in a new floppy and not risk crushing it, but doesn’t that not take into account the ability of the hardware to find the sectors on the disk that need to be calibrated when you insert it?
- rasz 7y agoThere is no calibration in floppies (and very old hard drives), track location is hardcoded in hardware and selected with stepper motor.
- kevin_thibedeau 7y agoHard-sectored 8" and 5.25" floppies did exist.