720RPM 3.5" FDDs?

[Dan Gahlinger]

actually it's not an even million.
a megabyte is 1024*1024 bytes
(1024 K), a mb is a million bytes, but an MB is 1,048,576 bytes
1K = 1024 bytes, not 1000 bytes.

Dan.

> Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 23:50:18 +0200
> From: thypope at gmail.com
> To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: 720RPM 3.5" FDDs?
> 
> On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Jules Richardson
> <jules.richardson99 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Fred Cisin wrote:
> >>
> >> [how many bytes in a Megabyte?]
> >
> > As many as your marketing department wants you to have.
> >
> 
> A million. And 8 bits in a byte.
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I just joined cctalk. While you're on floppy drives, I'd like to ask
> something. Wasn't the LS-120 made by Panasonic ? And didn't they make
> another version, the LS-240 ?
> 
> As far as I can remember, any of them are made to work on the IDE/PATA
> interface. Now, would it be possible to adjust it hardware so that it
> can be recognized as a real floppy ? This would be the solution to
> making it work under Win XP.
> 
> Yes, it probably won't be able to record big disks, but as far as I
> know Panasonic provided a software program to do that, which
> reportedly worked like a CD burning program. That program could
> apparently write 32 MB on a regular disk. Assume we also have the
> source code of that program.

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