RARE AND UNUSUAL 1.2M 5.25" drives? (was: Working 8" Floppy drives??? (from originator)

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From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Fri May 9 14:56:00 2003

> The format that IBM used was 512 bytes per sector, with 15 sectors per
> track. That gave a capacity of 1228800 bytes, or 1.121875 "honest"
> megabytes (where a K is 1024 and a M is 1024 K (1048576)), or 1.228
> Million bytes, or 1.2 IBM SLEAZY BOGUS "mega"bytes (where a "megabyte" is
> creatively redefined to be 1000*1024). But the format was largely a

CORRECTION: that should have read '1.171875 "honest" megabytes'
There are a dozen other errors, but that one needed to be fixed.
Received on Fri May 09 2003 - 14:56:00 BST

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