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| subject: | Floppy formats - Followup (was Re: m$ crap) |
Viktor Pilpenok wrote in a message to All: VP> Hello All! VP> (Here is some additional info about 5.25" floppies) VP> For 5.25" floppies it was less messy than 3.5". The basic formats VP> were: 160k - 1 Sides 40 Tracks 8 Sec/Track 180k - 1 Sides 40 VP> Tracks 9 Sec/Track 320k - 2 Sides 40 Tracks 8 Sec/Track 360k - 2 VP> Sides 40 Tracks 9 Sec/Track 640k - 2 Sides 80 Tracks 8 Sec/Track VP> 720k - 2 Sides 80 Tracks 9 Sec/Track 1.2m - 2 Sides 80 Tracks 15 VP> Sec/Track VP> The 2 most common formats with more sectors/track were: 11 s/t VP> (880k - used on 720k floppies) and 20 s/t (1.6m - used on 1.2 VP> floppies). VP> There were 2 pretty popular formats with additional tracks in the VP> 360k days: 41 and 42 tracks (410k and 420k) And 2 less popular used VP> on 1.2 floppies - 82 and 83 tracks (1.48m and 1.49m) And then of course there were all the CP/M formats (on 5.25", almost no machines used 3.5"), and the 96tpi drives and 100tpi drives, as were used in the DEC Rainbow and the C= 8050... :-) ---* Origin: TANSTAAFL BBS 717-838-8539 (1:270/615) SEEN-BY: 633/267 270 @PATH: 270/615 150/220 379/1 396/45 106/2000 633/267 |
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