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From: dragon@oliveb.UUCP (Give me a quarter or I'll touch you)
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Subject: Re: An Amusing Anectode (The tale of the 2 Meg disk)
Message-ID: <2011@oliveb.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 13-Jul-87 12:14:09 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 13 12:14:09 1987
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in article <873@omepd>, hah@isum.intel.com (Hans Hansen) says:

 > In article <1649@cadovax.UUCP> keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle) writes:

 >>In article <398@rocky.STANFORD.EDU> ali@rocky.stanford.edu (Ali Ozer) writes:

 >>>Anyway, now I have a 2.0 Meg capacity floppy disk. 8-)

 >>Well, if 2.0M 3.5" floppys achieve their high density in the same way
 >>HD 5.25" floppys do, you might not want to use it.  HD disk drives use

^^^ This is right.  The 2.0mb 3.5" uses a higher transfer rate to achieve
18 sectors per track instead of nine, when used with MS-DOS.

 > The new HI-Density Dis