Originally Posted by
Caradoc
That's a 3.5" HD. Anyone else remember the 8" 180k, or the 5.25" 360k?
360k was double-sided 5.25" -- I remember the ~160-180k single sided ones that Apple and Commodore used, where you had to flip them over to use the other side (sometimes having to cut an extra notch in them, too.)
I also used the rare 1MB-on-double-density Commodore drives, and the pretty common later 1.2MB "high density" 5 1/2 (they were ubiquitous on the IBM AT and various clones.) Also the 720-800k double-density 3.5". I am familiar with in principle, but never used, the 2.88MB "quad density" 3.5" ones IBM introduced with some of the late PS/2 systems.
The only 8" ones I used were very late 8" ones and held a lot more than 180k... around 1MB, I think.
Originally Posted by
YCTTSFM
But wasn't the 1.4mg 3.5" FD a late improvement in capacity?
Depends on your definition of "late" -- they came in around the same time 3.5" became ubiquitous in the PC world in the late 1980s, so they don't seem "late" to me, but someone used to the Mac/Atari/Amiga world where 720-800kb 3.5" disks were common might find them late.