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Subject: Re: new floppy format proposal
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Date: Wed, 28-Oct-87 23:04:55 EST
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I think the Victor PC used a type of floppy drive that had a variable
rotation speed, in order to accomplish more uniform (and therefore
greater) density recording on diskettes.

In response to Timothy Kay's query:

Here is a new idea which is mine.  My idea, which now follows is my idea. :-)

How about defining a new floppy format where the outside of the disk is
formatted high-density, and the inside is formatted low-density.  This
way, you should be able to comfortably and reliably pack about 800k-1000k
of data on the dirt-cheap floppies.  All you would need to do is rewrite
the DOS block device driver to recognize this special format automatically.