22 Feb
2022
22 Feb
'22
9:16 p.m.
Sent from my iPad
On Feb 22, 2022, at 22:59, Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks
at gmail.com> wrote:
?On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 10:43 PM Jay Jaeger via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Yeah, I had forgotten that.
Writing a 360KB or RX50 diskette with a 1.2MB
drive is a path to a lot
of frustration. Not only do you have to double step the drive (software
often takes care of that part), but the tracks written will be narrower
than a real RX50 / 306KB drive...
A real RX50 is an 80-track drive. You are correct that writing a
"360K" floppy on a high-density drive is not a good idea, but a real
RX50 _is_ 80 tracks, just single-sided, for a total of 400KB per disk.
-ethan