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From: tjfs@otter.hple.hp.com (Tim Steele)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Hub ring on HD floppies
Message-ID: <660001@otter.hple.hp.com>
Date: 15 Feb 88 17:47:00 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK.
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Well, the *real* reason (according to Inmac) is that the reinforcing ring does
indeed disturb the disk alignment slightly (a price worth paying on a low
density disk drive that chews floppies), which is not acceptable on HD drives.

Tim