6 Dec
2014
6 Dec
'14
11:51 a.m.
On 12/06/2014 11:26 AM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Finger-brain disconnect: Should be:
Now, if we extend this to the "1.2MB" disk
with 15 sectors of 512 bytes
per track, we run into a problem. Counting only one side, we have
15*512*80 = 600 * 1024 bytes. Making this double-sided is 1,200 * 1024,
which was 1.2 * 1,000 * 1024--a mongrel. I prefer to call this
1200K--and it's 3.5" cousing 1440K--and indeed some Microsoft utilities
access this--but the world is what it is.