12 Feb
2003
12 Feb
'03
5:35 a.m.
On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, chris wrote:
I have some half height 5.25 360K drives. They are
working pulls from PC
clones. I don't think I have any full height ones. Some (most?) are
black, and many have that little imprinted asterick that designated the
360K "B" drive as opposed to the 1.2MB "A" drive.
The asterisk identifies a "360K" drive. Whether you put it in B: or A: is
entirely up to you. Not everybody uses a 1.2M for A:.
If a drive does NOT have an asterisk, then it is either a 1.2M, OR a 360K
from before the time that IBM realized that they needed
to differentiate
and chose the wrong one to label, OR a 360K from most other
manufacturers
other than those building drives for IBM.
(Common sense: if you create a new type of something and need to label
them as being different, should you label the NEW type, or a
subset of the subsequent production of the OLD type?)