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Re: PBS show
On Thu, 13 Jun 1996, jim bell wrote:
> >The comments about the floppies (" VERY SMALL capacity floppies (which were
> >very slow as well") is even more off-base.
>
> The original Apple II floppy held ONLY 90 kilobytes on a 5" floppy. How did
> they do such a bad job?
Wrong. The _original_ apple 2 floppy held about 130K -- competitive with
other single-density single-sided floppies of the day... 1 1/2 years later,
they fit 160K on a single-sided single-density floppy, almost as much as
an IBM double-density single-sided floppy (180K) (This is related to the
fact that the apple used 5+3 encoding, while IBM still uses the
more-obvious but less-efficient 4+4 -- read _Beneath_Apple_DOS_ for more
details)
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