Date   : Sun, 08 Aug 2010 23:39:54 +0100
From   : tom@... (Tom Seddon)
Subject: Why did Acorn ADFS only allow 640KB on a floppy?

On Sun, 08 Aug 2010 23:33:12 +0100, Pete Turnbull wrote:

> There were at 
>least two other similar cards made by other companies around the same 
>time (1981), at least one of which came with a memory editor program 
>(the Crack-Shot, from the wonderfully named Pirates Harbor company). 
>Meant purely for archival copies.  Honest.

I believe that for maximum safety you're SUPPOSED to give the backups
to somebody else :)

--Tom