WTB: HP-85 16k RAM Module and HPIB Floppy Drive

Mark J. Blair nf6x at nf6x.net
Wed Nov 15 10:31:15 CST 2017


> On Nov 15, 2017, at 01:31, Christian Corti via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> 
> No, the 9122C has two high-density, two-sided 80 cylinder drives. A drive has no capacity, this is the function of the on-disk format.
> ;-)

Ah! That's technically correct, which is, of course, the best kind of correct.

Well, if we're being pedantic, then we might also refer to the drives by their unformatted capacity, as HP themselves sometimes did:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DOr81HpVQAAn-X5.jpg

That makes them 2-Mbyte drives. ;-)

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