Date   : Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:31:54 -0000
From   : dl.harper@... (David Harper)
Subject: Re-using floppies

Jules Richardson wrote:

> I believe 40-cylinder 3.5" drives did exist, but are extremely rare.
>
> 5.25" world further muddied by 77-track drives, 35-track drives, 
> non-Shugart
> drives (Apple etc.), drives that expect disks with hub rings and drives 
> that
> don't (most don't care, thankfully), drives that run at funny speeds, 
> drives
> that are fixed to a specific address etc. :-)

Just to go a bit further OT - weren't 8" drives normally 35-track? Ages 
since I have seen one of those.

David Harper