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- From: meixner@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Matthias Meixner)
- Subject: Re: DD vs HD floppies
- Sender: news@news.th-darmstadt.de (The News System)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.180414@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 17:04:14 GMT
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- Organization: TU Darmstadt
- Keywords: Amiga CrossDOS
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- >Hello,
- >
- >I'm having a problem finding an IBM compatible machine which will accept
- >my DD (Double Density) floppies. All the I've seen PC's seem to have the HD
- >(High Density) drive as standard. I would really like to use the Amiga
- >CrossDOS facility for transferring work from the PC's at my university to my
- >A1200 at home.
-
-
- HD floppies can format DD Disks. Therefore it would be the easiest way to
- use DD Disks to transfer the data. The A1200 can handle these disks, which
- are formatted to 720K by using CrossDos that comes with Kickstart 3.0
-
-
- - Matthias
-