Re: 800k drive formats (A proposal)

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From: Steve Kearns
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1986 22:17

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compatability between 400k and 800k disks would be great, but your system
will not do the trick because.....
Files are not contiguous on the disk; one file might start in sector 8 and
jump to sector 555.  So Even if you have half the sectors you are not 
guaranteed of getting half the files.  
-steve

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Subject: Re: 800k drive formats (A proposal)
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