RM Nimbus

From: David Holland <dholland_at_woh.rr.com>
Date: Mon Jan 27 17:12:00 2003

On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 17:18, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
> 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.

Which may explain why a 5.25" HD disks won't work worth a frap in my
Apple II's...

David


> 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 - 17:12:00 GMT

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