On Thu, 30 Dec 2010, Tony Duell wrote:
  However, I'll bet that if you ask a reasnablu
'techy' PC person 'how many
 tracks are there on a 1.44M vfloppy disk' you will not get the answer
 '160' (whcih is the technically correct answer).. Most will answer '80'.
 I would probably say 'There are 80 cylinders, each of 2 tracks',
 particularly if I suspected it was a trick question :-) 
 Would you settle for "80 per side"?
  
Of course :-). But you, and many others here, are sufficiently clueful to
get it right
-tony