Date   : Tue, 23 Mar 2010 21:13:59 +0000
From   : pete@... (Pete Turnbull)
Subject: Re-using floppies

On 23/03/2010 18:31, David Harper wrote:

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

77-track.  The original 8" floppy "memory disk" for IBM's 370 computers 
was less, and the first commercially available outside IBM was 50 
tracks, but the standard rapidly became 77.

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Pete                                           Peter Turnbull
                                               Network Manager
                                               University of York