Dec/Compaq 2.88 floppy drives

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Thu Jun 12 15:56:13 2003

On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Joe wrote:
> I think that it would be hard to find disks for the 2.88 unless you want
> to buy them new. The disks are marked ED or EHD IIRC. I've been looking for
> them in the surplus/scrap places but only found ONE in 2 years.

They're not easy to find, but they do turn up occasionally.
IBM used them, and Next used them (they called them "4M" (unformatted
capacity))

IIRC, they are Barium Ferrite.
They look like a 1.4M, but the media ID hole is in a slightly different
place.

When used with a PC, they are 2 sided * 80 tracks per side * 36 sectors
per track * 512 Bytes per sector.
That works out to 2.8125 "honest" megabytes ("MebiByte") (1048576)
Unless you use IBM's ridiculous 1,024,000 bytes per megabyte.
Received on Thu Jun 12 2003 - 15:56:13 BST