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  2. To: executor@ardi.com
  3. X-MailNews-Gateway: From newsgroup comp.emulators.mac.executor
  4. Sender: owner-executor@ardi.com
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  6.  
  7. Ryan Myers wrote:
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  10. >The reason Executor can't read 800K's is because when PC's only could
  11. >cram 720K on a disk, they decided to physically write more tracks on
  12. >the inside of the disk.
  13.  
  14. Actually, I think they did it by varing the speed at which the data
  15. is written to the disk, depending on how far out the head is from
  16. the centre of the disk.
  17.  
  18. Iain
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