Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!rutgers!mcnc!xanth!kent
From: kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.misc
Subject: Re: 6 MB floppy drives
Message-ID: <2655@xanth.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 4-Oct-87 11:11:21 EDT
Article-I.D.: xanth.2655
Posted: Sun Oct  4 11:11:21 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 7-Oct-87 06:57:43 EDT
References: <1694@gryphon.CTS.COM> <1525@dasys1.UUCP> <1154@vu-vlsi.UUCP>
Reply-To: kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan)
Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk Va.
Lines: 29
Keywords: Kodak
Summary: comment on reliability
Xref: mnetor comp.sys.amiga:9089 comp.sys.misc:887

In article <1154@vu-vlsi.UUCP> cheung@vu-vlsi.UUCP (Wilson Cheung) writes:
>   I would be just a bit skeptical about the reliability of 10 Megs squished
>unto 5-1/4 floppy disk media.  Handle with care don't want to shake up too
>many ferrous particles.  


Well, don't put this one in the bank just yet, but if this is the
vertical encoding technique finally bearing fruit, then the word back
when it was still a lab curiosity was that due to the physics of
magnetic domains, the vertically encoded ones should be much MORE
stable than the horizontal ones we see go bad with distressing
familiarity.

Now for a gripe.  With cost of media running around $20 anyway, why
the heck didn't they use, even in a 5.25 inch size, the vastly
superior 3.5 inch packaging style?  Can't count the munber of 5.25
inch disks I've folded in half trying to stick them into the drive on
a bias.

Kent, the man from xanth.

		His expression lit up.  "Hey, you wouldn't be
		a dope smuggler, would you?"

		Rail looked confused.  "Why would anyone wish
		to smuggle stupidity when there is so much of
		it readily available?"

			-- Alan Dean Foster, GLORY LANE