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  1. Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!darwin.sura.net!haven.umd.edu!purdue!yuma!longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu!tb512958
  3. From: tb512958@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Ty Wesley Boyack)
  4. Subject: 2.88 Megabyte Floppies
  5. Sender: news@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU (News Account)
  6. Message-ID: <Jan08.003319.71161@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
  7. Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 00:33:19 GMT
  8. Nntp-Posting-Host: jenkins.lance.colostate.edu
  9. Organization: Colorado State U. Engineering College
  10. Keywords: 2.88, Floppies, Disk, Drive
  11. Lines: 14
  12.  
  13. I am looking at getting a 2.88 meg floppy drive, but have heard that the media is
  14. something like $15 per disk.
  15.  
  16. I am curious how a standard 1.44 (high density) disk works if formated to the
  17. 2.88 size.  Something like the fact that 720's work fine as 1.44's if you punch a
  18. hole in one side of the cartridge.
  19.  
  20. If anyone has a drive and would please try it, I thank you in advance.
  21.  
  22. You may need to find a physical difference in the diskettes themselves to get the
  23. drive to think it is a 2.88 - I do not know.
  24.  
  25. Ty! Boyack
  26. tb512958@longs.lance.colostate.edu
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