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From: dejnsen@caen.engin.umich.edu (Nik Anthony Gervae)
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Subject: Re: 20 Meg Floppies
Message-ID: <1991May3.190721.13594@engin.umich.edu>
Date: 3 May 91 19:07:21 GMT
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In article <1991May3.082413.18742@athena.mit.edu> trims@athena.mit.edu (Erik G Trimble) writes:
>These little suckers from Insite seem to be the answer to everyone's problems.
>Currently, they read/write 800k,1.44M, and 20M floppies. Insite is working to tweek the drive so it can read/write to 80meg floppies.  The method of read/writing to 20 or 80 Meg disks is not in the type of disk, but in the read/write head. The new drives 
>use an optical head to achive much greater track precision - thus, they can cram almost 50 times as many tracks as the old drives.  In answer to a previous question, this unfortunately means old floppy drives (including the "new" 2.88 ones) cannot be
>ded to take the new formats.
 
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  Does this mean that the 20 Meg floppies are MO? Or Phase Change?


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