On Thu, 2 Jun 2016, Fred Cisin wrote: > MOST of the "2.88M" drives (2.81MiB) drives could also do 1.4M; same FDC > but needed device driver and twice the data transfer rate for 2.8M.
Heh, 2.88" disks were like unicorns. I heard all about them, but I never saw them for sale or people using them. That was probably just my limited view at the time. The 20M floptical in the SGI Indy is like a tooth fairy riding a unicorn, I've seen pictures, but I've never actually seen one (or the disks) in person. > > > No CD. > Why no CD-ROM? 2/3G storage; SCSI or proprietary interfaces, even parallel > port adapters. Oh, that was someone else. I'll put in a SCSI CDROM, probably a Plextor or Pioneer. > CD-ROM was less work for installing Windoze 3.10/3.11 than a couple > dozen floppies. Or installing SLS or Slackware with 40 floppies. :-) -Swift
