18 Jun
2007
18 Jun
'07
3:07 p.m.
>> Oh, well. I guess that it is like selling
disks based on their
>> unformatted capacity - a 2.8M ED disk is called "2.88" by IBM, and
was
>> called "4 meg" by NeXT.
> I have some boxes that had "1.44s" in them branded IBM and which were
> labeled "2.0MB"...
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
Indeed. All of the IBM 2.88's I have are labeled
4.0MB.
The 2.8M diskettes mostly called "4 meg".
The 2.8M DRIVES were called "2.88 meg" by IBM, and were called "4
meg"
by NeXT.