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Re: Apple Pascal disk format (was Old Apple code)

Subject: Re: Apple Pascal disk format (was Old Apple code)
From: russell@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Russell Schulz)
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1993 23:51:03 MST
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers, comp.sys.apple2
Organization: Private System, Edmonton, AB, Canada
References: <1lvccu$agm@agate.berkeley.edu> <1m32kt$ghb@armory.centerline.com> <jpenne.730600213@ee.ualberta.ca>
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jpenne@ee.ualberta.ca (Jerry Penner) writes:

>>Just to make things harder the Apple Pascal had yet another low-level
>>disk format with 512-byte sectors rather than 256 and it required a

> Apple Pascal used the same low-level format as Apple DOS 3.3 and
> ProDOS 8.  It's just that they used 512-byte blocks like ProDOS does
> which means they used 2 256-byte sectors to represent one block.  I

which... was the same format used by the ///'s Sophisticated Operating
System, right?

(it took me... years to get that pun.)
-- 
Russell Schulz  russell@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca  ersys!rschulz  Shad 86c

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