Personal Computer User Manual

Your computer uses the read/write heads in a disk drive to store

and retrieve data on a disk. To write to a disk, the computer

spins it in the drive to position the area on the disk where the

data is to be written under the read/write head. A diskette has

an exposed area where the read/write head can access it.

Because data is stored magnetically, you can retrieve it, record

over it, and erase it-just as you play, record, and erase music

on a cassette tape.

Types of Diskette Drives

The Equity 386SX comes with one 1.44MB diskette. With this

drive, use 3½-inch, double-sided, high-density, 135 TPI,

1.44MB diskettes. These diskettes contain 80 tracks per side, 18

sectors per track, and hold up to 1.44MB of information, which

is approximately 600 pages of text. MB stands for megabyte;

each megabyte equals 1,048,576 bytes or 1024KB.

You may also have a second diskette drive, and it may be the

same type or it may be different. The following list describes the

other types of diskette drives you can use in the Equity 386SX

and which diskettes to use with them:

720KB drive-With this drive, use 3½-inch, double-sided,

double-density, 135 TPI, 720KB diskettes. These diskettes

contain 80 tracks per side, 9 sectors per track, and hold up

to 720KB of information, which is approximately 300 pages

of text. KB stands for kilobyte; each kilobyte equals 1024

bytes. Each byte represents a single character, such as A, $,

or 3.

1.2MB drive-With this drive, use 5¼-inch, double-sided,

high-density, 96 TPI, 1.2MB diskettes. These diskettes

contain 80 tracks per side, 15 sectors per track, and hold up

to 1.2MB of information, which is approximately 500 pages

of text.

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Using the Equity 386SX