Q1 floppy filesystem¶
The Q1 computers were amongst the earliest microprocessor based “all-in-one” office computers, and in the absence of single-chip floppy-controllers, they had to roll their own.
Each file is created specifying a record size and a number of records, and the system locates the necessary number of sequential tracks are formats them with the record size as sector size.
Track zero is always formatted with 40 byte sectors, each of which contain the catalog entry for one file.
Usage¶
from autoarchaeologist.vendor.q1 import q1_filesystem
…
self.add_examiner(*q1_filesystem.ALL)
Notes¶
Sector sizes seem to range from 8 to 255.
Sector count per track is probably limited to 255.
Test input¶
COMPANY/Q1_CORPORATION
