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One of the forgotten ones:

> The Victor 9000 was perhaps best known for how it was able to achieve such high density on it's floppy disks. It used variable speed disk drives; there were 9 different speeds used. As the drive head moved outward the speed would increase. It was really neat to hear the speed change as the drive head moved.

https://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=210




The Apple's 400k and 800k drives also used variable speed.




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