[Eug-lug] Warning of data ticking time bomb

[Ben Barrett]

Heh heh, hardware can *always* do more than the software running it
will let you... and many "proprietary" disk formats (which used the
same common blanks) merely have a modified format, say skip a couple
otherwise-crucial sectors, so theoretically you just need device-level
access, time, and luck :)   Thankfully I don't know brother
typewriters, but they'd have been wise to be using COTS junk with
custom software...

I've never used WordStar, marbux, but grew up with AppleWorks...
however I cannot imagine any common processes to be done on openoffice
docs, which seem laggy on any modern machine... granted, openoffice
likes ghz+, while I imagine wordstar 7 might be totally amped on
100mhz.
The biggest doc-process I've done is re-generating an index for a
100-page book, which had ~10 index items per page (big index IMO)...
but my word processing is limited otherwise, so I'm curious.

ben



On 7/5/07, bogan smythe <mikemcoo at efn.org> wrote:
...
> The interesting part for me is how this software can trick my machine
> into reading a single-density Brother-formatted floppy disk in a HD
> floppy drive.
...