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  1.     id m0uIlGe-0007spa; Sun, 12 May 96 18:13 MDT
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  6. From: "Iain W. Barker" <iain@yoshac.demon.co.uk>
  7. Newsgroups: comp.emulators.mac.executor
  8. Subject: Re: 800k disks possible at all?
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  10. Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 19:45:26 +0100
  11. Organization: Private Demon dialup
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  25.  
  26. Ryan Myers wrote:
  27. > 
  28. > 
  29. >The reason Executor can't read 800K's is because when PC's only could
  30. >cram 720K on a disk, they decided to physically write more tracks on
  31. >the inside of the disk.
  32.  
  33. Actually, I think they did it by varing the speed at which the data
  34. is written to the disk, depending on how far out the head is from
  35. the centre of the disk.
  36.  
  37. Iain
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