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From: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: fastback, 1.2m floppies
Keywords: fastback, 1.2m floppies
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Date: 11 Jul 89 07:59:39 GMT
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Organization: Rick's Home-Grown UNIX; Portland, OR.
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Fastback got around 400k on a disk by formatting 10 sectors per track.
It crammed even more data on by running the data thru some sort of 
compression algorithm.

Fastback Plus uses DOS formatted disk and makes the compression
switchable (takes more disks, but less time with it off).

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Leonard Erickson		...!tektronix!reed!percival!bucket!leonard
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