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  1.     id m0uLLPf-0007t1a; Sun, 19 May 96 21:13 MDT
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  7. From: alexm@eskimo.com (Alex Maddison)
  8. Subject: Re: 800k disks possible at all?
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  10. Message-ID: <Drn7uo.LxA@eskimo.com>
  11. Organization: Leng in the Cold Waste
  12. References: <31842e67.22965163@news.sprynet.com> <digbyj-0705961505310001@digby.compulink.co.uk> <BSPENCER.96May9090425@bassun.perfect.att.com> <4n1p9q$cqe@pacifica.access.ch>
  13. Date: Sun, 19 May 1996 08:06:24 GMT
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  18. Precedence: bulk
  19.  
  20. Beat Kuert (alcastellosa@access.ch) wrote:
  21. : bspencer@bassun.perfect.att.com (Brad Spencer) wrote:
  22.  
  23. :  
  24. : >Or the ability to read the disk at different data rates, which, I
  25. : >believe the Central Point board did [I seem to also remember that the
  26. : >Amiga or Atari ST did something simular with the data rates].
  27.  
  28. : It was the Amiga... The Atari ST used PC-DOS compatible diskettes, but
  29. : they were not 720K but 760K (I don't remember exactly), but this
  30. : wasn't a problem, you can read all Atari disks on your standard drive.
  31. : Oh yes: the Amiga, like the Mac, had 800K disks!
  32.  
  33. Actually, the Amiga uses 880K disks in it's low density drives.
  34.  
  35. Alex.
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  38. Alex Maddison                         Address: PO Box 6399
  39.                                                North Sydney Shoppingworld
  40. Email: alexm@eskimo.com                        NSW. 2060
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