Subj : Re: Early PCs
To   : Spectre
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Thu Apr 25 2024 06:32:00

-=> Spectre wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

 Sp> We had people here trying to flog systems with "160Mb" HDs in them,
 Sp> which for the most part turned out to be 80Mb MFM's that had
 Sp> compression added. Back when 160Mb was still a large drive..

Were those RLL drives? They used a special controller to write more
sectors per track on MFM drives.



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