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- Subject: Re: Searchlight sucks - NOT!
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- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 22:00:59 GMT
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- fnord@panix.com (Cliff Heller) writes:
-
- >First you indicate your experience in the computer world by revealing your
- >ignorance of the term RTFM (which is in every FAQ from alt. to talk.).
-
- Oh puhhlleeeeeze give it a rest! Thats nonsense.
-
- >In the 3.5" world there is no (none, zilch, zip, nada, nichts, rien, ..)
- >difference between a 720K disk and a 1.44M. It is not like the 5.25" world
- >where there is actually a difference in the media.
-
- BZZZZT!! Wrong! There most certainly is a difference. The coercitivity (sp?)
- of the DD disks is lower than the HD disks. Think about it, if they
- were the same, why would any diskette manufacturer bother selling their
- product for one price when they could sell it for twice as much?
- Furthermore, hole-punched disks, even if they dont suffer data loss by
- direct media error, they are highly prone to errors because of tiny
- plastic slivers introduced by the punching process. Come on, this is
- well-documented.
-
- Well mr fnord, I have sent you email on this topic and I think we should
- continue our conversation there.
-