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  2. Message-id: <ML-2.2.832900575.4086.srn@milawa.gh.cs.usyd.edu.au>
  3. Cc: executor@ardi.com
  4. Subject: Re: 800k disks possible at all?
  5. Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII
  6. Reply-to: Stephen Robert Norris <srn@gh.cs.usyd.edu.au>
  7. In-reply-to: <4nvbn2$2gl@pacifica.access.ch>
  8. To: alcastellosa@access.ch
  9. Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 11:16:15 +1000 (EST)
  10. From: Stephen Robert Norris <srn@gh.cs.usyd.edu.au>
  11. Sender: owner-executor@ardi.com
  12. Precedence: bulk
  13.  
  14. > While the 880k is true I'm 99% sure that Amiga did indeed use variable
  15. > speed drives, are you sure about that?
  16. > 
  17. > Lucius Kuert
  18.  
  19. Yep - it just wrote raw tracks. Only macs used the (much less reliable and more
  20. expensive) variable speed drives. A PC _drive_ could do 880k disks, except the
  21. controller is too brain dead.
  22.  
  23.     Stephen
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