Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!gatech!hao!husc6!sri-unix!sri-spam!ames!oliveb!dragon From: dragon@oliveb.UUCP (Give me a quarter or I'll touch you) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga 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 Article-I.D.: oliveb.2011 Posted: Mon Jul 13 12:14:09 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 14-Jul-87 06:11:53 EDT References: <873@omepd> Distribution: world Organization: Dragon Technology, Inc. San Francisco, USA Lines: 29 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