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From: flank@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Brett Jacobson)
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Subject: Re: 2.88 meg floppy drives
Summary: special disks required
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Date: 28 Nov 90 00:22:13 GMT
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In article <1990Nov27.235401.4109@engin.umich.edu> gilgalad@caen.engin.umich.edu (Ralph Seguin) writes:
>Howdy.  What is the educational price on the 2.88 meg floppy drives?  Do they
>use standard high density floppies?  The ones that NeXT sells are VERY
>expensive...
>
>			Thanks, Ralph

According to some research into the new 2.88Mb floppy (which is currently
only made by Toshiba), it required a special formulation, that is NOTHING
like the current HD formula.  The 2.88Mb floppy is 4Mb unformatted (so where
did all that space go?) and has twice as many sectors/track as teh 1.44Mb
HD disks, otherwise it is the same.

Chris Petrilli
(Forwarded from petrilli@dogface.UUCP)