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On those hard plastic 3 ½" you could punch a hole an and format theme as 1.44mb. Roughly 10% of them could hold the data for more than few weeks.
by ranting-moth 3y ago
On those hard plastic 3 ½" you could punch a hole an and format theme as 1.44mb. Roughly 10% of them could hold the data for more than few weeks.
- daneel_w 3y agoI never ran into that, having repurposed several hundreds of DD floppies for HD use. But the opposite situation was common with many different brands of both 3.5" and 5.25" discs: HD floppies that were problematic to write to using a DD drive, because of different thickness and composition of the magnetic layer.
- actionfromafar 3y agoYes! One of the PCs at my school had a 720 3.5” drive. Another twist with that. Writing with in 720 mode from a normal PC drive worked most reliably if the diskette first was formatted in the 720 PC.
- predictsoft 3y agoI tried that on the Acorn Archimedes. It resulted in, after a couple of days, a lot of lost data. Luckily just games.