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- From: umbadiu0@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Ted Babiuk)
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- Subject: Why not XX Meg floppies?
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 01:55:30 GMT
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- Just out of curiosity, Is the hardware compression methods used by V32
- (42) modems and such used on disk drives? If not, then how come? Couldnt
- the storage of floppies be greatly increased using Hardware Compression
- of the data. (and MFM and GCR arent much of a help! :) )
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