Format and Memory Capacities
of the Diskette
Formatted under CP/M-86
Enter drive
to
be formatted (A-ß) : B
Put diskette to be initialized in drive B. then type <CR>
Track ~ 8Ö
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OLYMPIA
Q o H
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Diskette Format
Double Side
(DS)
Double Density (DD)
80 Tracks per Side
16 Sectors per Track
256 Bytes per Sector
Memory Capacity
2x80 Tracks = 160 Tracks per
Diskette
1 Track
= 16 Sectors
1 Sector
= 256 Bytes
The storage capacity of 640
KBytes per diskette is a result of
the following calculation:
160 x 16 x 256 = 655360/1024
= 640 KByte
formatted
From this, 5 system tracks are
reserved for the operating
system.
5 x 1 6x2 56
= 20480
= 20 KByte.
620 KBytes are available to the
user.
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