30 Dec
2010
30 Dec
'10
2:34 p.m.
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"?