henkp@nikhefk.UUCP (Henk Peek) (04/16/87)
In article <666@unccvax.UUCP> you write: ->In article <1610008@hpcvlo.HP.COM>, john@hpcvlo.HP.COM (John Eaton) writes: ->> Another thing that IBM has given us in this announcement is a new way to use ->> the letter "M". A 1.44 MB drive is actually twice the size of a 720 Kbyte ->> which means it is 1440 Kbytes. This means that M now refers to the unusual ->> multiplier of 1000*1024. Talk about mixed unit of measure. -> ->I probably don't need to ask, but have you seen the new drive working ->in the new machines, or are you just assuming that it has only twice the The 1.44MB diskettes are not very new. In the diskette bios listing of the AT3 (dd. 851115 page 5-89), there is support for 1.44 MB diskettes. I don't have an AT3 but I suppose that they use dual speed (360/300 rpm) floppydrives. By using the 300 rpm speed they put 18 sectors on a track instead of 15 on the standard AT 1.2MB diskette. (There is no support for 600kHz datarate). Henk Peek, henkp@nikhefk.UUCP ..!seismo!mcvax!nikhefk!henkp.UUCP