8 Mar
2005
8 Mar
'05
3:43 p.m.
> There were some other variations of the 3.5"
physical case, including a
> 2.8M Berrium-Ferrite disk, and 20M Flopticals.
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Jim Beacon
wrote:
Does anyone have one of the IBM 2.88M 3.5"
devices - we had a couple of PS2
machines with these in at work, but the drives disappeared (replaced with
1.44M units).
I have a parallel port MicroSolutions 2.8M drive.
Sorry, but I intend to keep it.
In addition, some models of Next computers had them (called "4M" for their
UNformatted capacity).
BTW, in order to call it "2.88M", you would need to use3 the IBM drive
de3finition of "megabyte" of 1024000. If you define a Megabyte
("Mebibyte") as 1048576, then "1.44M" has 1.40625 M, and
"2.88M"
has 2.8125 M.
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