8' drive on PC troubleshooting

Tue Mar 1 17:38:16 CST 2005

On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Tom Jennings wrote:

> On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Eric Smith wrote:
>
> > IIRC, half-height 8-inch drives typically supported much faster step rates
> > than the full-height drives.
>
> Half height! 8-inch! What tall tales you tell! Where be these
> mysterious "half height" floppies?!

I've got several.

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