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From: gs940971@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu (glen sunada f84)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Formatting 720K disks to 1.44 Megs HELP!!
Keywords: disk, media quality, priceing
Message-ID: <3282@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU>
Date: 28 Nov 89 22:14:09 GMT
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In article <5557@cps3xx.UUCP>, usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner) writes:
> In article <5560@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> dillon@uhccux.UUCP (Ian
Dillon) writes:
> >In a related topic, are there any programs out there which will allow one
> >to read a 720K disk which has been formatted to 1.44 Megs. using a non-
> >PS2/Toshiba computer?
> 
> If a soft-sectored disk has been formatted to 1.44M, then it is a 1.44M
> disk.  It can only be used in the future in a 1.44M drive.  I strongly
> discourage this for 720k media, for the reasons in my last post.
> 
> In the rare case that original ideas   Kenneth J. Hendrickson    N8DGN
> are found here, I am responsible.      Owen W328, E. Lansing, MI 48825
> Internet: kjh@pollux.usc.edu           UUCP: ...!uunet!pollux!kjh

This is especially true since the true 1.44 Meg formatted diskettes are
now less than twice the price of the 720K formatted diskettes in bulk
quatities. (i.e. you get what you pay for)  The source I have found for
thiis is:
        First Souce Express.
I'm sorry that I do not have there address of phone number but they
advertise regularly in the back of PC-WEEK.



Glen U. Sunada
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