If the information is stored at some value of bits per cm... There's less bitrate (bits per revolution) in the middle of the record vs the outer edges.

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[–] 6 points 10 months ago (1 child)

It's an 11% increase, that's huge. Floppies weren't just used to store programs, also to store files.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    Some of the first real home/office PCs had only one floppy drive and 640kb of RAM. Fancier machines had a second floppy. If you were a millionaire, you could get a HDD with upwards of 30Mb storage.

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