18 Aug
2015
18 Aug
'15
2:11 a.m.
> NO.
> Osborne SD was also single sided.
> 10 256 byte sectors per track. 100K.
> [IBM PC] "360K" was 9 512 byte sectors, with TWO sides used.
On Tue, 18 Aug 2015, Terry Stewart wrote:
Hmm. I don't have the machine in front of me to
check (I'm at work), but I
pretty sure my Osborne 1A drives are single sided not double sided. But I
have the double density modification so yes, around 180-200k per disk I
imagine. Using the PC and Imagedisk I could easy write DD single-sided
disks in a double sided (360k PC) drive though.
I think that the Osborne DD was also single sided.
IF I remember correctly (unrefreshed dynamic wetware), it was 5 1024 byte
sectors. times 40 tracks, that would, indeed, be 200K.
"360K" is mainly just the NAME of a PC format of 9 * 512 * 40 *2 sides
The same diskette formatted for other machines could easily be anywhere
from 87.5K (TRS80 SD only used 35 tracks) up to 400K,
or even less with
some inefficient choices, or up to 800K at 96TPI, or even more
with
various strange choices, such as not having all sectors the same size.
Calling that diskette a "360K" provides a relatively unambiguous way to
identify the 300 Oersted, 1M unformatted media, and the IBM PC 48tpi
double sided floppy drive.
Yes, there are plenty of other further possible exceptions to keep some
ambiguitiy in the terminology.
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