Big list of floppy disk formats?

[Vintage Computer Festival]

On Sun, 6 Mar 2005, Jules Richardson wrote:

>
> Does such a thing exist? It'd be nice to have an online resource of all
> the different floppy disk formats used by different machines.
>
> Yes, that's one huge list, and would likely never be complete - but as I
> haven't come across an attempt at all so far, it'd be better than
> hunting around for the data when needed.
>
> I'd be happy to collate stuff if it's thought to be a good idea - I
> could make it available online too (although maybe one of the recognised
> repositories such as bitsavers would bea better place)
>
> Data can be fed into the futurekeep project as and when necessary, as
> it's something that'll be needed there too one day.

In fact, we discussed compiling such a list and I created some tools to do
sso, but the effort petered out before it began.  I have the database
tools all ready.  Well, they need some tweaking actually, because we
determined we need separate database tables for each type of media
(floppy, punched cards, etc.)

Contact me off-list and we'll get it going again, make the webtool public,
and then let people contribute for the benefit of all.

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