Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!pro-generic.cts.com!sb From: sb@pro-generic.cts.com (Stephen Brown) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: 5.25 floppy disk formats Message-ID: <9060.infoapple.net@pro-generic> Date: 10 Jan 90 07:32:33 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 13 In-Reply-To: message from paul@athertn.Atherton.COM [lots of stuff on FM and MFM disk data encoding methods deleted] Whatever you say about Apple's proprietary encoding technique, you have got to admit it's pretty good. Consider that you get 140K per side, or 280K per double-sided disk in single density. That's not too bad in comparison to IBM's 360K /disk double-density. sb@pro-generic UUCP: crash!pro-generic!sb ARPA: crash!pro-generic!sb@nosc.mil INET: sb@pro-generic.cts.com