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  1. Organization: Private Demon dialup
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  3. Message-ID: <319631C6.3D6B3857@yoshac.demon.co.uk>
  4. References: <31842e67.22965163@news.sprynet.com> <4n2m4t$9va@nadine.teleport.com>
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  11. To: executor@ardi.com
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  13. Sender: owner-executor@ardi.com
  14. Precedence: bulk
  15.  
  16. Ryan Myers wrote:
  17. > 
  18. > 
  19. >The reason Executor can't read 800K's is because when PC's only could
  20. >cram 720K on a disk, they decided to physically write more tracks on
  21. >the inside of the disk.
  22.  
  23. Actually, I think they did it by varing the speed at which the data
  24. is written to the disk, depending on how far out the head is from
  25. the centre of the disk.
  26.  
  27. Iain
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