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- From: Roger_Nordin@atb.bbs.bad.se (Roger Nordin)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: DD vs HD floppies
- Message-ID: <OD.6badnetOA92-901-302p0_56c4400e@piraya.bad.se>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 18:08:04 +0000
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- Reply-To: Roger_Nordin@atb.bbs.bad.se (Roger Nordin)
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- > I'm having a problem finding an IBM compatible machine which will accept
- > my DD (Double Density) floppies.
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- How come? Any 1.44Mb 3.5" HD floppy on a PC will read properly formatted 720Kb
- 3.5" DD floppies. Perhaps you have not successfully formatted the disk. Try to
- format it to 720Kb at the PC system and then copy som files onto it on your
- Amiga.
-
- > (do not reply "I found a PC with a DD drive").
-
- As soon as you have found a HD drive, you have found a DD drive too. :)
-
- > What happened to the "say" utility/speak handler (even if it was
- > a bit naff)?
-
- Commodore decided not to pay for the licence and dropped the narrator support.
- Too bad.
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