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From: mwilkins@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Mark Wilkins)
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Subject: Re: Formatting 800k as HD ?!?
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Date: 30 May 90 00:02:30 GMT
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In article <80967@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Jim Gaynor <gaynor@cis.ohio-state.edu> writes:
>>  By the way, if you have any references to publicly available articles in
>>engineering journals or the like which support Apple's official statements
>>on the matter, I'm curious.
>
>	Do you have access to similar materials supporting your claims of
>"no difference" between types of diskettes?  I, at least, have the support
>of diskette manufacturers, floppy drive manufacturers, and the producers of
>both Macintosh and MS-DOS computers.


  I'm inclined to say you're right about all of this, especially because it
wouldn't surprise me a bit if IBM were passing off second-rate disk drives
in their PS/2 machines.

  However, the reason I asked this last question is not by way of a
challenge, but rather to suggest that disk and disk-drive manufacturers
would DEFINITELY have a motive for being unclear about this stuff,
especially if the only difference between DS/DD and DS/HD disks were the
price.

  Specifically, I'm wondering if there's anyone who has done extensive,
controlled testing of this stuff other than those who manufacture the
disks.  Something on the order of a Consumer Reports article or something.

  Thanks for taking the time to respond to my comments.

-- Mark Wilkins