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From: ejp@icd.ab.com (Ed Prochak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: 8050 Dual Disk Drive
Keywords: 8050, floppy
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Date: 4 Mar 91 14:01:11 GMT
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It has been a while since I used an 8050 drive.
If I recall correctly they held about 0.5Meg
per disc so that with discs in both drives
you have about 1.0Meg online. They definitely
held a lot more than 170K per disc. They were
pretty reliable too.

Have fun with it.

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