In <listserv%[email protected]>, on 03/27/2009
at 09:50 AM, Tom Marchant <[email protected]> said:
>IIRC, the 3350 had 30 tracks per cylinder. The 2305 model 2 had 768
>tracks and non-movable heads, so it would have needed more bits for the
>head address.
The 2305 only had 8 tracks per cylinder; 4 bits is plenty.
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