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From: sritchie@cs.ubc.ca (Stuart Ritchie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: 2.88 meg floppy drives
Summary: Can't upgrade my 1.44 floppies by drilling?
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Date: 28 Nov 90 05:32:19 GMT
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In article <40277@ut-emx.uucp> flank@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Brett Jacobson) writes:
>According to some research into the new 2.88Mb floppy (which is currently
>only made by Toshiba), it required a special formulation, that is NOTHING
>like the current HD formula.  The 2.88Mb floppy is 4Mb unformatted (so where
>did all that space go?) and has twice as many sectors/track as teh 1.44Mb
>HD disks, otherwise it is the same.
>
>Chris Petrilli
>(Forwarded from petrilli@dogface.UUCP)

So I can't drill a hole somewhere in my 1.44's to double their
capacity?  You mean, we have to pay twice as much now?
That's no fun.  Whaddya think I bought a drill press for?

Sleepy Stu...