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to: John Beamish
from: Frank Haber
date: 2003-04-15 14:33:22
subject: Re: Undocumented Format Switch

From: "Frank Haber" 

Which brings up another useless bit of trivia.  Is the fill char still F6h
for floppies?  That's worst-case for MFM.  It was different for RLL (C5?).
Now, it's probably stochastic, like the predictive EC IBM introduced a few
years ago.  AAh,  on Thursdays, at the outside of the disk, at STP, on an
unspared sector, if the moon isn't gibbous, with an uncertainty of <1 in
10^-12.

- Welcome to the longest running movable craps game in the industry, and
don't take any wooden unimbedded servos,

-Nathan Detroit
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