[Coco] Fw: Help floppy drive

[L. Curtis Boyle]

On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 16:59:53 -0600, Joel Ewy <jcewy at swbell.net> wrote:

> And don't forget 2.88M.  I sort of understand why those never caught on,
> but not quite.  I guess it was that they came out at about the same time
> as CD-ROMs, and while 2.88M floppies halve the number of disks you need
> to ship, CD-ROM (at the time) reduced it to one.  But still... You often
> still see support for it in the BIOS.  But you never see the drives or
> disks.  I've seen the drives in IBM PS/1 and PS/2 systems a few times.
>
> And that's not even counting things like those oddball Superdrives that
> could put something like 32M on an ordinary 1.4M floppy...

Having used several 2.88 MB drives here at work, they were NOT very  
reliable (at least, whatever brand we had wasn't... they tended to  
scramble way more often than 720K or 1.44 MB (3.5" we are talking about  
here).

I actually had a USB "superdrive" (read/wrote 720K, 1.44MB and special  
20MB floppies) here at work, and it was actually more reliable than the  
2.88 (probably because of the laser to guide the head). Later, I think  
they got up to 120MB on a floppy, didn't they?


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L. Curtis Boyle