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  6. From: alcastellosa@access.ch (Beat Kuert)
  7. Newsgroups: comp.emulators.mac.executor
  8. Subject: Re: 800k disks possible at all?
  9. Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 00:29:26 GMT
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  22. elemar@hyperion.dorm.umd.edu (Eric Lemar) wrote:
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  25. >Beat Kuert (alcastellosa@access.ch) wrote:
  26. >: Oh yes: the Amiga, like the Mac, had 800K disks!
  27. >: 
  28. >Nope.  Amiga had 880K disks.  and they got them a different way.  they 
  29. >don't use a variable speed drive, but still can't be read since they
  30. >don't have skip between sectors.
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  32. While the 880k is true I'm 99% sure that Amiga did indeed use variable
  33. speed drives, are you sure about that?
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  35. Lucius Kuert
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