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[-] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago

IIRC they were more like 170kb? Single sided (single density). I had the C64 ones.

[-] Kelly@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

My family's IBM compatible had 5¼" double sided double density disks that held 360KB.

But there was a lot of variations between platforms:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_floppy_disk_formats

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