Re: assistance with disk ][ and modern 1.2M floppies

[Paul Guertin <pg@sff.net>]

supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:

> dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) wrote:
> 
> >Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote:
> >
> >> The Disk II will store to only one side but you should notch
> >> the disk to use the other side.  Why waste it?  ;-)
> >> 
> >> The disks are certified double sided after all, so they will
> >> store 280k.  One volume on each side.
> 
> 286k to be exact.

Only if you define a "k" to be 1002.517482... bytes, which
is a pretty strange definition if you ask me. 256 bytes times
16 sectors times 35 tracks equals 140 kilobytes, exactly.

Paul Guertin
pg@sff.net