HollowPoint123 Posted December 18, 2010 Share Posted December 18, 2010 (edited) reinforced hub ring What is that anyway? The hub or hole in the middle of the floppy has an extra ring of plastic around it. The early IBM floppy drives had trouble gripping the hub and so the floppy would slip when being spun. So, to get around the problem they added the ring to thicken the edge of the hole where the disc is gripped. Later 1.2MB drives didn't have this problem so the hub ring was not needed. That's why a 360KB floppies have the ring and 1.2MB flops don't. Edited December 18, 2010 by HollowPoint123 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
82-T/A Posted January 19, 2011 Share Posted January 19, 2011 I've personally found (having used DOS versions 3.21a through 6.22) that the best one for maintaining a vintage PC system is DOS 5.0. It has the most features, with the least amount of fluff. It's the lightest version, with the best inherent memory management that allows for the greatest amount of base memory free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BydoEmpire Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 LOL. I thought this was going to be about the Apple II. Heh, same here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Usotsuki Posted January 22, 2011 Share Posted January 22, 2011 Agreed on 5.0 except for one circumstance: if no hard drive, 3.3 may be better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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