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From: meyer@s.cs.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: Are 720K floppies really 1.44M in d
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Date: 7 Feb 89 20:09:00 GMT
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Nf-From: s.cs.uiuc.edu!meyer    Feb  7 14:09:00 1989


I'm not so sure about the different oxide concept; I was recently told by a
person familiar with the industry that non-high-density 3.5" diskettes are 
merely those diskettes which failed the manufaturer's tolerance tests.  They 
are then marketed as 720K.

Believe it or not.

Don Meyer		University of Illinois, at Urbana-Champaign
meyer@s.cs.uiuc.edu