Date   : Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:25:05 +0000
From   : pete@... (Pete Turnbull)
Subject: Re-using floppies

On 23/03/2010 18:16, Phill Harvey-Smith wrote:

> But arn't 35 and 77 track drives just 40 and 80 track drives formatted 
> with less tracks (Cirtainly this is true of the Tandy CoCo's drives 
> which are 35 track).

Not always, some really aren't capable of stepping far beyond 35/77. 
However, when 40/80 became common, and that was certinly true by the 
time the CoCo appeared, some disk formats simply retained the 35 or 77 
track limitation so the software didn't have to change.

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Pete                                           Peter Turnbull
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                                               University of York