Re: Computing Editorial (please read)

["Bill Leary" <Bill_Leary@msn.com>]

"Holger Petersen" <hp@kbbs.org> wrote in message
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> I still remember the first Micropolis Ad for "Quad Density".
> They used 77 tracks on 5.25 Media wher others at taht time used 40.

I've got six of those here.  Two in an old Northstar, two in the machine I
built myself, and two more in an external cabinet which attached to my own
machine.  I recall well the "amazingly high" density as compared to other
5.25" drives.  I also recall that it wasn't exactly easy to find sixteen
sector hard sectored floppies.

Then I rewrote the BIOS so it could operate the two externals as though they
were one drive.  I don't recall if I had it act as a four head drive or I
spoofed the track selector.  Whatever, it was kind of nice to have two disks
worth of capacity available as a single drive.  It was interesting to watch
the drive lights blink back and forth as they got fragmented too.

    - Bill