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To: Dan(9698)
You are so correct, floppies were 1.44 meg, at least the later advanced ones. But those were the hard plastic case ones, right? I'm thinking of the larger and floppy floppies. What were they, 500k. I thinking the ones that worked with the IBM 486.

These ones...


31 posted on 01/14/2013 8:56:14 PM PST by gunsequalfreedom (Conservative is not a label of convenience. It is a guide to your actions.)
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To: gunsequalfreedom

IOmega had 10MB floppies that were Mylar inside a rigid plastic frame. I think they then went to a 20MB version with its unique drive. The 20MB drive could R/W the 10MB too, which I believe was only single sided, versus the double sided 20 MB that looked very similar. We really thought we were cookin’ back then (~1985?).

HF


54 posted on 01/17/2013 11:21:21 AM PST by holden (Alter or abolish it yet?)
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