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From: hthomas@irisa.fr (Henry Thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Disk space for FREE (was Re: super high density formatters)
Message-ID: <1990Nov22.111313.14993@irisa.fr>
Date: 22 Nov 90 11:13:13 GMT
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From article <1990Nov21.023456.28006@tcsc3b2.tcsc.com>, by tcsc@tcsc3b2.tcsc.com (The Computer Solution Co.):
> stephen@corp.telecom.co.nz (Richard Stephen) writes:
> 
>>In <17184@hydra.gatech.EDU> scott@kong.gatech.edu (Scott Coulter) writes:
> 
>>Back in the February 1989 BYTE, page 30, there is an advert from an outfit
> 
> I checked my experience with the regional rep for one of the largest
> (US) suppliers of media.  He checked with the factory (in St. Paul) and
> found that the difference is in the warranty, not in the media.  They
> will replace any diskette which fails at the density for which it was
> purchased.  Diskettes which have been modified will not be replaced.
> 

The explanation is know is very similar. All 3"5 diskrette are produced the
same way. Now suppose thwey produced 10000 no differenciatred diskettes. They want
now to release 4000 1.44 disk. They sample the disks and check them until
they have 4000 disks (of course, the disks are statistically sampled). The
remaining disks are then sold as 720 K disks, because they have not been
CHECKED, though they MAY be good a 1.44M.

					Henry. 
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--                                   Henry Thomas