25 Nov
2008
25 Nov
'08
11:16 a.m.
Even computer companies - people that should know
better, make
mistakes when talking about floppy disks. Last week I was in a Staples
store (American office supply store chain), and saw a Memorex 3 1/2" USB
floppy drive, the package stating clearly that it supported "1.44mb
double sided and 720k single sided diskettes". >
Well, calling it mb (millibyte) is clearly wrong. And the value of
1.44Mbytes assumes you take 1Mbyte as 1000*1024 bytes, which is downright
crazy.
But I'll bet you're moaning abotu the '720K single-siderd' part. But what
do you think is the capacity of a single-sided, 80 cylinder disk using
the the HD data rates (And thus 18 512-yte sectors/track)? OK, I'll but
that's not what the drive supports, but there's no logical reason why it
can't...
-tony