Old Floppies

[Shawn Badger]

I seem to rember somethign about that as well. If i rember correctly when
1.44's became widespread the on 720's produced where the ones that couldn't
be formatted at the higher data rate. Just to make sure you don't have any
compatablity problems, I would tape over the second square hole. This will
make the HD drives think it is a DD disk.



On 4/27/07, eric <ericlists at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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