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id m0uMlVB-0007tHC; Thu, 23 May 96 19:17 MDT Received: from milawa.gh.cs.usyd.EDU.AU (milawa.gh.cs.usyd.EDU.AU [129.78.8.50]) by milawa.gh.cs.usyd.EDU.AU (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA00626; Fri, 24 May 1996 11:16:16 +1000 (EST) Mime-version: 1.0 Message-id: <ML-2.2.832900575.4086.srn@milawa.gh.cs.usyd.edu.au> Cc: executor@ardi.com Subject: Re: 800k disks possible at all? Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Reply-to: Stephen Robert Norris <srn@gh.cs.usyd.edu.au> In-reply-to: <4nvbn2$2gl@pacifica.access.ch> To: alcastellosa@access.ch Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 11:16:15 +1000 (EST) From: Stephen Robert Norris <srn@gh.cs.usyd.edu.au> Sender: owner-executor@ardi.com Precedence: bulk > While the 880k is true I'm 99% sure that Amiga did indeed use variable > speed drives, are you sure about that? > > Lucius Kuert Yep - it just wrote raw tracks. Only macs used the (much less reliable and more expensive) variable speed drives. A PC _drive_ could do 880k disks, except the controller is too brain dead. Stephen