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- In <4nvbn2$2gl@pacifica.access.ch>, alcastellosa@access.ch (Beat Kuert) writes:
- >While the 880k is true I'm 99% sure that Amiga did indeed use variable
- >speed drives, are you sure about that?
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- Don't you hate it when that 1% gets you? The Amiga did indeed use single
- speed 300rpm drives.
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- The Amiga got the extra space by doing away with physical sector gaps. The
- entire track was read in and sent to the OS which decoded the raw MFM or
- GCR data and the OS then divided the track into logical sectors.
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- While it may be possible to create an 800k disk format, it won't be
- compatible with the *Mac* 800k disk format.
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- mdaymon
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