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Types of Diskette Drives

The Equity 386/25

comes with one 1.2MB diskette drive. With

this drive, use 5 ¼-inch, double-sided, high-density, 96 TPI,

1.2MB diskettes. These diskettes contain 80 tracks per side, 15

sectors per track, and hold up to 1.2MB of information, which is

approximately 500 pages of text. MB stands for megabyte; each

megabyte equals 1,048,576 bytes or 1024KB.

You may also have a second diskette drive, and it may be the

same type or it may be different. The following list describes the

other types of diskette drives you can use in the Equity 386/25

and which diskettes to use with them:

360KB drive-With this drive, use 5 ¼-inch, double-sided,

double-density, 48 TPI (tracks per inch), 360KB diskettes.

(You can also use single-sided, 160KB or 180KB diskettes.)

These diskettes contain 40 tracks per side, 8 or 9 sectors per

track, and hold up to 360KB of information, which is

approximately 150 pages of text. (With 8 sectors per track, a

diskette holds up to 320KB.) KB stands for kilobyte; each

kilobyte equals 1024 bytes. Each byte represents a single

character, such as A, $, or 3.

1.44MB drive-With this drive, use 3 ½-inch, double-sided,

high-density, 135 TPI, 1.44MB diskettes. These diskettes

contain 80 tracks per side, 18 sectors per track, and hold up

to 1.44MB of information, which is approximately 600

pages of text.

720KB drive-With this drive, use 3 ½-inch, double-sided,

double-density, 135 TPI, 720KB diskettes. These diskettes

contain 80 tracks per side, 9 sectors per track, and hold up

to 720KB of information, which is approximately 300 pages

of text.

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