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On Mon, 15 Sep 2025 16:51:04 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

>  On the other hand, there was a plethora of incompatible
> 5 1/4" formats (at least before IBM steamrolled them), making it
> difficult to exchange data back in the days when there was a lot of
> diversity.  At least without specialized hardware - our computer club
> had a special floppy controller known as the Disk Maker, an S-100 card
> which could handle 400 different 5 1/4" formats.

I had a CP/M utility that could read quite a few formats that were created 
with the Western Digital floppy controllers but no where near 400 
flavors.