RM Nimbus

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Mon Jan 27 16:14:00 2003

On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Peter Hicks wrote:
> I recall the age old DD/HD debate with the floppies - is there really
> just one production line, and disks that are 'good enough' get
> stampted with HD in the top right corner, and the rest are just deemed
> DD and put in to other boxes.

Yeah, right.
(-: And on Kodak's only assembly line, they take small samples from each
roll of film; the ones that turn out to be fastest get marked TRI-X, and
the slower ones get marked PLUS-X. :-)

DD 5.25" disks are about 300 Oerstedt.
HD 5.25" disks are about 600 Oerstedt.
DD 3.5" disks are about 600 Oerstedt.
HD 3.5" disks are about 750 Oerstedt.

Yes, there IS a chemical difference that creates the different coercivity.
Received on Mon Jan 27 2003 - 16:14:00 GMT