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Subject: Re: Drilling holes in DS/DD -> DS/HD
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Date: 13 Dec 89 21:53:15 GMT
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From article <16918215MES@MSU>, by 18215MES@MSU.BITNET:
> A student friend of mine said that a buddy of his drilled a hole
> in his DS/DD 3.5" floppy to convert it to a High Density disk,
> and IT WORKED! I know this is probably not advisable, but
> is this the same trick they played on us with the 400 k disks -
> some of which worked fine formatted to 800k? (also risky I guess)
> Has Anyone else tried this? (those DS/HD are still pretty expensive)

Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with this company.

You can order a product for $39.95 that will do this for you. It's called
DoubleDisk, and it is made by Biological Engineering Inc., who can be reached
at 800-537-4226 (Colorado: 303-872-8945, fax: 805-644-1814). Apparently, the
thing is very sturdy and dependable, as it is made of all steel, is good for
10K disks, has a replaceable punch, and is guaranteed to convert any DD 3.5"
disk to HD (send them any floppy that fails and they'll send you an HD floppy)
and is backed by an unconditional (yep, that's the word they used) money-back
guarantee. (It's not really unconditional, because you have to send the unit
back, but I think what they mean to emphasize is that you can send it back
at any time and they won't question you. I wonder if this means you can wait
till HD floppies are obsolete and THEN send it back... :-) ).

Anyway, I plan to order one as soon as a defunct company decides to put its
finances in order and pay me. (My Visa got cancelled this morning! Waaah!)
Then I can back up my hard drive, which hasn't gotten that treatment since
March, and has lived through at least two brownouts that I know of...
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