How much do 8" Floppies hold?

From: Allison J Parent <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Wed Feb 4 11:18:49 1998

<I keep an 8" floppy disk in the front of my store to amaze people ("Jus
<fold it twice and stick it in your drive...it holds a lot!")
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<Just how much do (did?) they hold? (I'm sure there were different data
<densities...just a range is all I want!)

standard single sided single density was 128bytes*26 sectors*77 tracks
or 256k.

The high end is double density two sided and around 1mb.

Allison
Received on Wed Feb 04 1998 - 11:18:49 GMT