Media interchange sillinesss (Was: floppy controller IC (was Re:

From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis_at_mcmanis.com>
Date: Thu Sep 30 13:02:05 1999

Fascinating stuff, the old "HD/DD/SD" debate rages even today. Fortunately
half of the conversation gets filtered on this end.

Fred's absolutely correct.

I can add only one Factoid that was true in 1986 which was that Sony and
Verbatim had both admitted that they were only made double sided diskette
media and the single sided disks were in fact double sided capable. But
_nobody_ ever claimed they used a single emulsion for both HD and DD disks.
For formats where the emulsion was the same for SD vs DD disks they did use
the same media.

--Chuck
Received on Thu Sep 30 1999 - 13:02:05 BST