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