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From: zap@lysator.liu.se (Zap Andersson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.multimedia,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Diffs between DD & HD disks
Message-ID: <571@lysator.liu.se>
Date: 7 Apr 91 22:30:41 GMT
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THere is SOME thruth to this, however:

Most diskette manifacturers use the same media for 1.44 and 720k disks.
However, a test is done on each disk, and if it falls below a certain
threshold in reliability, they go in the 720k bucket, otherwise they
will become 1.44 Meg's.....

Imagine this on memory chips.... if QA testing allows, they are 1Meg
chips, if not, just 256k ;-)

/Z

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