100 v 96 (was: Tandon TM-100-4M curiosity

[Fred Cisin]

On Fri, 10 Aug 2007, Christian Corti wrote:
> But the track-to-track distance is practically the same,

By the time that you go 77 or 80 tracks, you are at least three tracks
away from where you want to be!  That is NOT practically the same for this
use.

> at least I could
> perfectly read all my SORD M23 disks in a standard DSHD drive (with tracks
> 0-2 obviously missing at the beginning). The M23 disks are 100tpi SS MFM,
> the drives used are TEAC FD-50C.

All of the Sord disks that I've seen have been 96tpi.



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