[comp.sys.ibm.pc] Are 720K floppies really 1.44M in d

meyer@s.cs.uiuc.edu (02/08/89)

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