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Re:Triple Density Floppy, Anyone? by erkkonet on Tuesday November 05, 2024 @01:31AM (#42049083)
In the late nineties I had a laptop that supported SuperDisk¹ floppies that could store up to 120 MB. The disks were pretty expensive and the same laptop even had a CD-RW drive so I never got around to try it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperDisk

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Re:Triple Density Floppy, Anyone? by toast0 on Tuesday November 05, 2024 @01:40AM (#42049126)
Those drives were nice. Windows 98 could fit on a ls-120, but not a zip-100. And, they were really good at reading regular floppy disks too. Handy as media seemed to be getting worse and worse towards the end.
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Re:Triple Density Floppy, Anyone? by colanderman on Tuesday November 05, 2024 @01:44AM (#42049143)
SuperDisk was far faster for random access than CD-RWs. Even with normal floppy disks. I liked them a lot.
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