New subject: 3" Floppy disks again

12 Oct 1999

<Allison wrote:
<> There are two media for 96tpi, one for DD and lower and is the SAME
<> magnetic material as 48tpi.  THere is also the 1.2mb media and this is
<> VERY DIFFERENT and incompatable with any other drive or density.
<
<Not quite.  The "1.2mb" media is compatible with Apple Twiggy diskette
<drives, though the jacket cutouts are different.

I consider Apple disks and disk systems to be generally unique to 
themselves. I was trying to stay within softsector standard dives and media
and not looking at the specifically unique like the Apple or Commodore or 
just about every other hard sector formatter (though the drives may be run 
of the mill for these). Since the jacket is different, the media is again 
only somewhat compatable.

there were plenty of "odd" disk drives and media out there like the 
Amstrand 3" and the really old sony 3.5".

Allison