15 Nov
2017
15 Nov
'17
9:56 a.m.
On Nov 15, 2017, at 09:44, Fred Cisin via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Bogus as it may be, compatible media for those drives commonly has "HD" printed
on the box and molded into the diskette's plastic jacket. It's a useful term for
identifying the compatible media.
--
Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
http://www.nf6x.net/
> No, the 9122C model has two 1.44M drives. HP
made several earlier 3.5"
On Wed, 15 Nov 2017, Christian Corti via cctalk
wrote:
No, the 9122C has two high-density, two-sided 80
cylinder drives. A drive has no capacity, this is the function of the on-disk format.
;-)
"high-density" is even more meaningless than referring to them by their
capacity in a given format. It is a BOGUS marketing term!