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Re:A Thread about Internet Archive's “Silent Killer” by logfromblammo on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @02:53PM (#21766103)
NeXT 3.5" floppy drives could do 2.88 MB, but that was at a time when Iomega Zip and Jaz drives were bridging between floppy and writable CD.
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Re:A Thread about Internet Archive's “Silent Killer” by nl on Thursday December 12, 2019 @12:47AM (#21769559)
2.88MB was supported by most drives and was usable under Linux. You were supposed to use proper 2.88MB floppy, but you could usually get away with using a 1.44MB floppy and reformatting.

I'm not entirely sure how well they were supported under Windows though.

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Re:A Thread about Internet Archive's “Silent Killer” by SmellyGeekBoy on Thursday December 12, 2019 @06:29AM (#21770992)
IIRC the Windows 95 install floppies were 2.88MB. With that in mind it's probably safe to assume that they were at least readable even in DOS, although I don't recall being able to format or write to a floppy at that capacity in any version of DOS/Windows.
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Re:A Thread about Internet Archive's “Silent Killer” by rasz on Friday December 13, 2019 @06:20AM (#21780704)
no, 1.68MB https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribution_Media_Format
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