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Re: 800k disks possible at all?



Beat Kuert (alcastellosa@access.ch) wrote:
: bspencer@bassun.perfect.att.com (Brad Spencer) wrote:

:  
: >Or the ability to read the disk at different data rates, which, I
: >believe the Central Point board did [I seem to also remember that the
: >Amiga or Atari ST did something simular with the data rates].

: It was the Amiga... The Atari ST used PC-DOS compatible diskettes, but
: they were not 720K but 760K (I don't remember exactly), but this
: wasn't a problem, you can read all Atari disks on your standard drive.
: Oh yes: the Amiga, like the Mac, had 800K disks!

Actually, the Amiga uses 880K disks in it's low density drives.

Alex.
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