7 Oct
2005
7 Oct
'05
5:14 a.m.
On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 23:15:59 -0700
"Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
On 10/6/2005 at 10:26 PM Fred Cisin wrote:
I have for a time wanted to own a 2.88 floppy drive for one and only one
specific reason: to produce bootable 'floppy images' to burn to a CDROM
that make it a bootable CD. It's trivial to produce 2.88 images, but
you can't run the MS-DOS 'sys' command on an image. You need a real
drive for that.
On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Scott Stevens wrote:
What surprised me is the way that the extra 3.5" data space was
obtained. Always by boosting the data rate (mandating the need for
new coating formulations). Never by increasing the number of tracks
or changing the encoding method.
The 2.88MB DSED diskettes were ridiculous--expensive AND unreliable.
The highest density 8" media I ever had was
DSDD, or
720K on the big 8" surface.
approximately 1.2M But point taken--the attractiveness of the floppy
medium is that it's
CHEAP. I've owned several LS-120 drives, but have never purchased a
120 MB SuperDisk.
I am gradually accumulating a heap of internal Zip drives, but own no
Zip 100 media.