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In high school, my friend used his dad’s drill press to drill a hole in cheap 720KB floppies to make the computer recognize them as 1.44MB instead. The disks wo
by ttul 3y ago
In high school, my friend used his dad’s drill press to drill a hole in cheap 720KB floppies to make the computer recognize them as 1.44MB instead. The disks worked perfectly at the higher density, making you wonder whether these were identical to the more expensive units…
- jahnu 3y agoUsed to do the same thing myself. It worked! Until it didn’t and you lost data. Floppy roulette :)
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