15 Nov
2017
15 Nov
'17
8:35 a.m.
FYI - I checked related to the HP 85 IEEE port I have an Microcomputer
Systems Corporation MSE 9800 and an HP 9122S
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On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 11:31 AM, Mark J. Blair via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Nov 15, 2017, at 01:31, Christian Corti via
cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> 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.
;-)
Ah! That's technically correct, which is, of course, the best kind of
correct.
Well, if we're being pedantic, then we might also refer to the drives by
their unformatted capacity, as HP themselves sometimes did:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DOr81HpVQAAn-X5.jpg
That makes them 2-Mbyte drives. ;-)
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Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
http://www.nf6x.net/
