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Also a good guess because if I remember correctly the floppy floppy disks which were flatter with a larger surface area and actually floppy were about 512k or s
by richardhod 4y ago
Also a good guess because if I remember correctly the floppy floppy disks which were flatter with a larger surface area and actually floppy were about 512k or so.
I only ever saw one machine with one of those in though and of course it was at school, running useless software for us
- Ekaros 4y agoFor PC I remember the 5.25" were 1.2MB. Not actually bad capacity comparatively. Or 612KB for single sided. Though Wikipedia lists quite wide range of sizes none at 512KB.
- jaclaz 4y agoActually 5.25" were usually 360 KB, the 1.2MB came later, just like 3.5" floppies, they were originally 360 Kb, then 720KB, only later they became 1.44MB: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk#Sizes,_performance_and_capacity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk#Sizes,_performance... Though it all happened in a few years, when the 3.5 came out most if not all the 5.25 were already 1.2MB, and the first 3.5 were advertised for their robustness, not for their capacity (which was initially inferior).
- function_seven 4y agoFor all the complaining I do about USB's naming standards—"Full Speed" is not in fact "full", it's slower than "High Speed"—I don't remember having the same gripes about Double Density vs. High Density :)
- jaclaz 4y agoYou skipped the time where there were punchers to open a second hole in 3.5 DD to make them HD (those were the times .... ;)): https://www.webcommand.net/index.php/2019/07/31/does-anyone-remember-the-floppy-disk-punch-notcher/ https://www.webcommand.net/index.php/2019/07/31/does-anyone-...
- aidenn0 4y agoI seem to recall that there was a dedicated word-processor machine by someone from the original Macintosh team that formatted 3.5" disks for 512K.