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Re: 800k disks possible at all?



elemar@hyperion.dorm.umd.edu (Eric Lemar) wrote:


>Beat Kuert (alcastellosa@access.ch) wrote:
>: Oh yes: the Amiga, like the Mac, had 800K disks!
>: 
>Nope.  Amiga had 880K disks.  and they got them a different way.  they 
>don't use a variable speed drive, but still can't be read since they
>don't have skip between sectors.

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

Lucius Kuert



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