4 Feb
1998
4 Feb
'98
1:53 p.m.
PG Manney wrote:
I keep an 8" floppy disk in the front of my store to amaze people ("Just
fold it twice and stick it in your drive...it holds a lot!")
Just how much do (did?) they hold? (I'm sure there were different data
densities...just a range is all I want!)
If I recall, when IBM first invented the things, they held right about
128k, single sided, single density. By the time I first dealt with them
in the TRS-80 Model 2, they were packing 512k on a single-sided disk.
Later, the Model 16/6000 Xenix systems were packing 1.25M on a double
sided disk. Shortly after that, the format died in favor of 5.25HD.
--
Ward Griffiths
Dylan: How many years must some people exist,
before they're allowed to be free?
WDG3rd: If they "must" exist until they're "allowed",
they'll never be free.