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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 1.6 meg drives and the Amiga
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Date: Fri, 30-Oct-87 00:35:08 EST
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Posted: Fri Oct 30 00:35:08 1987
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In article <2615@cbmvax.UUCP>, daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) writes:
> > I want the 1.6 meg high-density microfloppies. ... [How about it?]
> Well, maybe.  The 2 meg (unformatted) floppies weren't designed into 
> Paula, so it's not as simple as dropping in a new device driver....

Now, I might be sucking swamp water on this, but...

I have heard that the encoding used on the Amiga 1000 diskettes can be
modified to pack nearly 1.3 megabytes on the floopies. It's somewhat
akin to the idea of using 16 bit nybbles in 18 bit GCR on the Apple-II
instead of 6 bit nybbles in 8 bit GCR. Could you comment on this?
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