Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!rice!arcadien.rice.edu!jsd From: jsd@arcadien.rice.edu (Shawn Joel Dube) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: NeXT floppy disks Message-ID: <1990Dec16.072544.233@rice.edu> Date: 16 Dec 90 07:25:44 GMT References: Sender: news@rice.edu (News) Reply-To: jsd@arcadien.rice.edu (Shawn Joel Dube) Distribution: usa Organization: Rice University Lines: 20 In article , ls1i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Leonard John Schultz) writes: |> Does anyone know where I can get the ED floppy disks nesessary to format |> to 2.88 Megs on the NeXT? How about the price of the floppies, |> especially bulk rate. |> I've seen a NeXT price sheet saying 5 for $99. I would guess that you could use 720k and HD (1.44m) disk if make a proper change on the disk. What I mean is that with a low-density 720k disk, drilling a hole in a corner will make the disk an HD one (or at least that's what the drive thinks it is). -- rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr r ___ _ "...but then there was the r r /__ | \ possibility that they were r r ___/hawn |__\ube LaRouche democrats which, of r r jsd@owlnet.rice.edu course, were better off dead." r rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr