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Re: Re: 800K disks
>I have the solution to the 800k problem! Drill a hole the the corner of the
>disk that has no hole. Presto your 800k disk should work.
not. With that hole in it the disk drive is going to say to itself "oh, a
high density floppy, lets read this." As soon as it tries, it will go
"Blecch! I can't read that!" And now, if you try to read it in mac
Superdrive, it won't read it either, unless you tape over the hole again.
Cheerios,
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