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Re: 800k disks possible at all?



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!

Lucius Kuert



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