Re: Did Commodore cheat with the quad density floppies?

From: silverdr_at_wfmh.org.pl
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2019 10:47:09 +0100
Message-Id: <6B3D1EEA-0B08-45DC-94E0-B1A39B052F2A@wfmh.org.pl>
> On 2019-01-03, at 17:51, Mia Magnusson <mia@plea.se> wrote:
> 
> In practice the cassettes did differ rather much between models and
> manufacturers.[...] the tapes differed a lot within each type.

They differed a huge lot! Especially among the Type I where one could get anything from a really good medium to a totally useless thing, which only purpose was to spread out and leave dirt on everything it came to touch.

> This must surely have happened on diskettes also,

Yes. Never had a diskette, which made you open the drive and clean the heads afterward? ;-)
But with diskettes I never encountered the kind of crap I saw on the compact cassettes. In general it was much better and far, far less of dirt scattering.

> but as the media is
> used in a different way the only important things would be that the
> noise is under a certain threshold and the "treble response" is good
> enough so data won't get lost at higher bit rates, and of course drop
> outs.

Yes.
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