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1. doogli+(OP)
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2026-02-03 18:49:25
The wiki page agrees with parent, "The double-sided, high-density 1.44 MB (actually 1440 KiB = 1.41 MiB or 1.47 MB) disk drive, which would become the most popular, first shipped in 1986"
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>>bcrl+V5
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2. bcrl+V5
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2026-02-03 19:13:40
>>doogli+(OP)
To make things even more confusing, the high-density floppy introduced on the Amiga 3000 stored 1760 KiB
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2026-02-03 20:38:39
>>bcrl+V5
At least there it stored exactly 3,520 512-byte sectors, or 1,760 KB. They didn't describe them as 1.76MB floppies.
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