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- From: lemay@epx.cis.umn.edu (Lawrence LeMay)
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- Subject: Re: 720K 5-1/4" diskettes
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.215455.5222@news2.cis.umn.edu>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 21:54:55 GMT
- Article-I.D.: news2.1992Sep4.215455.5222
- References: <".2-Sep-92..8:36:48.EDT".*.Michael_D._Sprague.wbst311@Xerox.com> <Bu2K2r.6oy@acsu.buffalo.edu>
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- In article <Bu2K2r.6oy@acsu.buffalo.edu> spt@acsu.buffalo.edu (Scott P. Toenniessen) writes:
- >In article <".2-Sep-92..8:36:48.EDT".*.Michael_D._Sprague.wbst311@Xerox.com> Sprague.Wbst311@xerox.com writes:
- >>
- >>> Does anyone know where I can buy 720k 5-1/4" DSDD 96tpi diskettes...
- >>
- >>Last I knew, Radio Shack sold them ... but the price was NOT cheap. Note,
- >>however, that modern day DSDD floppies should work (I think). I have not used
- >>them this way a lot, but have never had problems with those I have tried.
- >>
- >
- >I use DSDD 5 1/4 as 720K disks with no problems so far (I've been doing
- >this for a few months).
- >
- > Scott
-
- Apparently some of these 'quad' density disk drives are sensitive about NOT
- having hub rings on the floppy. You will notice that High-Density floppies
- do not have these rings...
-
- So, is there a source of fairly high quality DS/DD floppies WITHOUT hub rings,
- for those of us that plan to format and use these disks as if they were Quad
- density disks?
-
- -Lawrence LeMay
- lemay@epx.cis.umn.edu
-