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Karl Baron on Nostr: Anyone know what “256 format” floppies are? There are tons of listings for these ...

Anyone know what “256 format” floppies are? There are tons of listings for these on Mercari.

Clues include “JIS256, “256 bytes per sector, 26 sectors”, “1.6/2.0 MB” (presumably formatted/unformatted capacity) and “not supported on Windows/MS-DOS”.

Looking at the floppy formats list on Wikipedia it doesn’t seem to match PC98 or Sharp X68000.

Is it for Japanese Word Processors maybe?