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Re: IBM PC floppies on Rainbow?

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From: kushall.Henr
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 1990 15:33
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You can not read/write std IBM 360K floppy on the rainbow RX50 drive

The IBM 360K format is DSD at 48 TPID
The Rainbow drive is single sidded SSDQ at 96 TPI

You can read write the IBM 175K format SSDD
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