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by rasz 660 days ago
Op meant LS120.

"Ordinary" floppies peaked in 1988 (yes, before IBM 1990 PS/2 2.88 ED) with 'Triple' or '2TD' format developed and shipped by NEC inside PC-88 VA3. 13MB unformatted, _9,120 kB_ formatted capacity. Triple because it tripled track density from 80 to 240 while reusing ED barium ferrite magnetic media and perpendicular recording head of ED drive, same ~100KB/s speed.

https://necretro.org/PC-88_VA3

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