Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!haven!umd5!lewhoosh.umd.edu!matthews From: matthews@lewhoosh.umd.edu (Mike Matthews) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: NeXT floppy disks Message-ID: <7724@umd5.umd.edu> Date: 16 Dec 90 14:56:24 GMT References: <1990Dec16.072544.233@rice.edu> Sender: news@umd5.umd.edu Distribution: usa Organization: /etc/organization Lines: 23 In article <1990Dec16.072544.233@rice.edu> jsd@arcadien.rice.edu (Shawn Joel Dube) writes: >I've seen a NeXT price sheet saying 5 for $99. Hmm, I've seen 'em for 5 for $30. Can't verify that, though. >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). Nope. The media is totally different, from what I hear. That's just ASKING for trouble anyway. Use the disk the way it's rated for, save yourself and anybody else who depends on that data some grief. >r jsd@owlnet.rice.edu course, were better off dead." r ------ Mike Matthews, matthews@lewhoosh.umd.edu/matthews@umdd (bitnet). ------ sig under construction, replies may have NeXT attachments