How much do 8" Floppies hold?

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Wed Feb 4 13:38:55 1998

Looked in my 1978 Intel catalog. It says that their iSBC 202 double density
controller is compatible with the Shugart SA 800 8" disk drive and that it
will store 77 tracks per disk, 52 saectors per track and 128 bytes per track.

  Their iSBC 211 and 212 disk subsystems allow 256K per diskette.


  BTW someone on this list said that Intel did not use the i prefix until
the 486 CPU came out. That's not right, I have an Intel "iAPX 86,888
User's Manual" dated 1981.

At 11:26 AM 2/4/98 -0500, you wrote:
>I keep an 8" floppy disk in the front of my store to amaze people ("Just
>fold it twice and stick it in your drive...it holds a lot!")
>
>Just how much do (did?) they hold? (I'm sure there were different data
>densities...just a range is all I want!)
>
>manney
>
>
Received on Wed Feb 04 1998 - 13:38:55 GMT