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Re: 800k disks possible at all?



> While the 880k is true I'm 99% sure that Amiga did indeed use variable
> speed drives, are you sure about that?
> 
> Lucius Kuert

Yep - it just wrote raw tracks. Only macs used the (much less reliable and more
expensive) variable speed drives. A PC _drive_ could do 880k disks, except the
controller is too brain dead.

	Stephen



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