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From: bheil@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Brian Heil)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Mac and Amiga floppy sizes
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Date: 17 Nov 90 05:45:22 GMT
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Hi, it's me again!

Can somebody explain quickly and briefly why Macs use that weird variable
speed deal on the floppies?  I remember it was supposed to be to get more stuff
stored on the disk, but seeing as my amiga claims 880K (amigados info) or 837K
(SKsh info) and all I can get on the Mac disk is about 780K (730K usable) this
seems to be unreasonable.  I suspect a marketing ploy. 

Any comments?

Brian Heil                           )              University of Iowa
bheil@scout-po.biz.uiowa.edu         (      College of Business Administration
bheil@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu           )        Computing Services Organization
"Loni, I've told you a thousand times, BOOT CUT!" -Dave Letterman doing Burt
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