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Article #6586Re: SE question
From: Michael Bergman
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1989 19:23
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1989 19:23
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This thread should probably be renamed "variable speed drives", but I'm not going to do it...I spoke to someone from Kennect about how their drive works, and he said that by using BOTH apples variable speed drive AND IBM's formatting method, they get their 2.4 Meg micro-floppies (which no one else can read) -- so the answer to the question seems to be "you're both right" -- there is no great advantage to using variable speed drives over fixed speed drives, its just that the variable speed drives came first, but there is an advantage to mixing the two technologies. (I had asked the engineer at Kennect how they got 2.4 Meg onto an HD disk without exceeding the rated capacity of the disk) -- --mike bergman Massachusetts Microelectronics Center 75 North Drive, Westborough, MA 01581, USA +1 (508) 870-0312 UUCP: harvard!m2c!bergman INTERNET: bergman@m2c.org
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!bu-cs!husc6!m2c!bergman From: bergman@m2c.m2c.org (Michael Bergman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: SE question Message-ID: <BERGMAN.89Oct17152328@odin.m2c.m2c.org> Date: 17 Oct 89 19:23:28 GMT References: <50037@<1989Oct2> <8400174@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <1989Oct12.231203.15676@NCoast.ORG> <3258@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> Sender: news@m2c.ORG Organization: Massachusetts Microelectronics Center, Westborough, MA Lines: 18