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  1. Newsgroups: comp.emulators.mac.executor
  2. Subject: Re: 800k disks possible at all?
  3. Followup-To: comp.emulators.mac.executor,poster
  4. Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 19:45:26 +0100
  5. Organization: Private Demon dialup
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  15. To: executor@ardi.com
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  19.  
  20. Ryan Myers wrote:
  21. > 
  22. > 
  23. >The reason Executor can't read 800K's is because when PC's only could
  24. >cram 720K on a disk, they decided to physically write more tracks on
  25. >the inside of the disk.
  26.  
  27. Actually, I think they did it by varing the speed at which the data
  28. is written to the disk, depending on how far out the head is from
  29. the centre of the disk.
  30.  
  31. Iain
  32.  
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