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Offline SACC-guyTopic starter

Amiga floppies size
« on: April 30, 2015, 06:04:50 AM »
Okay, from the 1000 on (not high density drive).

We always say its 880k!
Is this the gross amount, if so what do they format to 8??k...

(http://www.amigahistory.co.uk/floppy1.html)
Older machines, such as the A1000 & A500 have a storage limit of 837k. Although these machines can read 880k disks with a device handler (a small file that allows the Amiga to understand the disk), they cannot boot from them when you switch on your computer.

Is this true?

Thanks,
M
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Offline SACC-guyTopic starter

Re: Amiga floppies size
« Reply #1 on: May 01, 2015, 10:52:01 PM »
Okay, I get the floppies could be setup (formatted) from 837k to 984K...

But what is the "normal" formatted number?

TIA
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