Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Floppies Date: 15 Sep 2025 04:15:30 GMT Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <106mke5$1di32$1@dont-email.me> <106ukm1$35g8p$3@toylet.eternal-september.org> <106v67a$1cgol$1@news1.tnib.de> <106vfvv$3bpmd$1@toylet.eternal-september.org> <106vi4r$3c9cr$2@dont-email.me> <3ihcmlx47d.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <1070cqj$3jkmu$1@dont-email.me> <1071hu3$1idk1$1@news1.tnib.de> <9fjemlxbio.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <6jefmlxb6j.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <10884l7$173em$1@dont-email.me> <1089ge2$1fvl9$8@dont-email.me> <10a68ql$16tjt$1@dont-email.me> <68c6bbc5$0$402$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <10a6rp4$1d082$5@dont-email.me> <2d9jplxvcn.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <10a6t8d$1d082$8@dont-email.me> <4cnjplxbgm.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <9DOdncUo-vACHFr1nZ2dnZfqnPadnZ2d@giganews.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net xgCU0MBbei9MiqwF1IfWuQh83N1SSMM1jAw92PTlUtHZ1vaswC Cancel-Lock: sha1:61y8gCfaoCg/EeiRMg40E2bdXrw= sha256:X/4eusmE0wzfICGau71h3ROcvJLfb4knJ6S7olhXpnk= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:74197 On Sun, 14 Sep 2025 23:01:44 -0400, c186282 wrote: > And then there was single-side/single-density, > double-side/single-density, double-side/double- density, "high > density" and even quad-density ("Elephant Memory systems" made those, > had them). I liked Elephaants. iirc they were cheaper than Memorex and just as good. The Osborne 1 came with 2 SSSD drives. I later sent it back for the DSDD upgrade and video upgrade that allowed 80 or 104 columns on an external monitor. That was the only problem I had with it. They used a CMOS device in the video card. That was fairly early in the CMOS game and while they had lower static dissipation, there was enough capacitance that dynamic dissipation was frequency dependent, say if you were generating video output. I switched to a TTL device and problem solved. I never bothered with them but little jigs were available to notch the diskettes so you could flip them over in SS drives and hope for the best. https://atariprojects.org/2019/06/28/make-floppy-disks-double-sided-5-10- mins/