Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!kth.se!sunic!mcsun!ukc!slxsys!ibmpcug!mantis!mathew From: mathew@mantis.co.uk (mathew) Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn Subject: Re: BBC disc drives.. Keywords: 8-bit Message-ID: Date: 18 Mar 91 13:30:01 GMT References: Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK. Lines: 21 gilbertd@p4.cs.man.ac.uk (Dave Gilbert) writes: > I thought 1.2Mb drives had a different type of magnetic head - something to d > with needing a different amount of magnatisation for the different media > > (at least thats the story I heard why the 1.2Mb discs aren't SUPPOSED to work > on other drives) Get a 1.2MB disk. Hold it up to the light and look at the surface. Note the colour. Get a 360K disk. Hold it up to the light and look at the surface. Note the colour. They are different. It's not a rumour or a supposition. You can do the same with 3.5" 720K/1.44MB disks. mathew -- "These kinds of remarks are wholly inappropriate and are the mark of a bigot." -- Theodore A. Kaldis