1 Sep
1997
1 Sep
'97
6:47 a.m.
On Mon, 1 Sep 1997, Marvin wrote:
Roger Merchberger wrote:
The 8" drives are 48tpi also.
- don
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At 05:02 PM 8/31/97 -0700, you wrote:
>5.25" floppy drives are 96 tracks/inch (tpi), not 135.
With this discussion of TPI, I am aware of the 5 1/4" 48 and 96 TPI, the 3
1/2" 135 TPI, and the Micropolis 100 TPI drives, but what other formats are
out there? Anyone know of any online resources for this info? I checked
the Accurite home page and they only mention (at least as far as I could
find) 48, 96, and 135 TPI for the 3 1/2" and 5 1/4" drives. What about the
8" drives as well as "oddball drives" such as the 2" floppy disk (I
think
that is the size)? > Don,
> A small nit to pick, but _all_ 3.5" floppies are 135 tracks/inch. This
is
> true from my SSSD 200K Tandy Portable Disk
Drive 2 for my Tandy 200,
all
the way
up to 2.88Meg 3.5" floppy drives.
No, I meant exactly what I said - and for the record, 1.44mb 3.5" and 1.2