It was Wed, 01 Aug 2001 11:56:53 -0400 when Randy Kramer wrote:
>Thanks for the response! Ahh, yes, IIRC, MFM was the second type of
>hard disk available for the PC / hobbiest. (MFM had something to do
>with Manchester encoding, IIRC.) IIRC, RLL was another type of early
>hard disk (or was it just an encoding type).
In fact it was RLE. Runtime Length Encoding. These disks would use tracks less
than the usual width to get more on them and somewhat faster access.
Paul
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