What is bigger than a "super Jumbo Colossal" olive? (was: 8" hard sectored floppies - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

4 Jun 2004

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 from someone who has a hard type forgetting things like
that... 
extended was memory past 1meg and expamded was a memory slot
inside the 1meg space

sigh

best regards, Steve Thatcher

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 --- Original Message ---
From: Tom Jennings &lt;tomj(a)wps.com&gt;
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic Posts Only" &lt;cctech(a)classiccmp.org&gt;
Date: 6/4/04 3:33:57 PM
 On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 17:03, Fred Cisin wrote:
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> But, then, when density was finally increased, "quad density"
> and "super density" were already used up as names, so the
> mindless jerks called it "HD"/"High Density". 
"HD"/"High Density"
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   is MFM at 500K
bits per second data transfer rate on a 360
 RPM drive.  (Which is exactly what 8" DD was) 
Fred, you should stop remembering these things, it's bad for you.
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PS: To this day I can't remember which is which, EXTENDED or EXPANDED
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 memory, thankfully there's no need to any more.