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So everybody knows about 3.5 inch HD 1.44MB floppies, first introduced in 1985 by NEC inside PC-8801 mkII MR. IBM followed two years later switching PS/2 to 2HD floppies, Apple in 1988. 80 tracks ~50KB/s speed.

Much less known is ED 2.88MB. Only ever shipped in some 1990 IBM PS/2 and NEXT computers. 80 tracks ~100KB/s speed.

But pretty much nobody outside of Japan has ever hear about 'Triple' or '2TD' format developed and shipped by NEC in 1988 inside PC-88 VA3. 13MB unformatted, _9MB_ formatted capacity!! Triple because it tripled track density from 80 to 240 while reusing ED barium ferrite magnetic media, same ~100KB/s speed.

Could you imagine a world where we got 9MB ~100KB/s speed floppy drives in ~1990 in all computers?

>>rasz+(OP)
Ah, that would have made DOS game piracy so much easier.