Old Floppies

eric ericlists at gmail.com
Fri Apr 27 20:54:42 MST 2007


chip33az at netscape.net wrote:
> Gene Holmerud wrote:
>   
>> Are they 720kb?  If yes, I'll pay you a little for one or two dozen.   
>> 720's are usually labeled 2DD and have only one square hole in their  
>> top-right corner (or botton-left depending upon what you call "up"),  
>> whereas 1.4Mb are labeled HD and have a square hole in both top corners.
>>
>> Gene
>>   
>>     
> I haven't forgotten this.  All of the floppies encountered so far have 
> been HD.  I've gone through about 6' of stacked floppies.  I still have 
> a lot more to do :(
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Been a long while since I've dealt with those, so my memory is a bit 
fuzzy.  I seem to remember being able to reformat HD disks in a 2DD 
drive, and use them as 2DD disks? 

eric


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