18 Jun
2007
18 Jun
'07
9:36 p.m.
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 13:50:43 -0400
From: Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Pictures of My Machine Room (So Far)
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
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Roy J. Tellason wrote:
My first iteration of Windows 95 was on 3.5 inch floppy diskettes. At
some point, I wanted to make a backup copy on diskettes but couldn't
because the file sizes of the Windows distribution floppies was
1.8-1.9MB each. At the time I thought it was some sort of copy
protection. I assume they must have been able to format the discs for a
higher capacity - close to 2MB.
Does anyone know how?
On Sunday 17 June 2007 17:26, Fred Cisin wrote:
which were
Oh, well. I guess that it is like selling disks
based on their
unformatted capacity - a 2.8M ED disk is called "2.88" by IBM, and
was called "4 meg" by NeXT.
I have some boxes that had "1.44s" in them branded IBM and labeled "2.0MB"...
Indeed. All of the IBM 2.88's I have are labeled 4.0MB.
Peace... Sridhar