360K in a 1.2M drive (was: Parallel port hard drives?

From: Roger Merchberger <zmerch_at_30below.com>
Date: Wed Mar 29 14:56:49 2000

Rumor has it that Richard Erlacher may have mentioned these words:

>I just wanted to keep them out of the discussion, since there are "720K"
>diskettes in the 5-1/4" IBM-world with which they could be confused. I
>don't believe that they actually format to a 720K capacity in applications
>outside the "IBM"-PC world. They would, I guess, if one formatted them with
>9 sectors of 512 bytes per track.

Or how about 18 sectors of 256 bytes per track.... like on my CoCos (1 360K
5.25 & 2 720K 3.5" drives made for a *lot* of storage 10 years ago... :-)

Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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