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From: cgb@oink.UUCP (Charles G. Bennett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: $19 Floppy from NeXTConnection?
Message-ID: <73@oink.UUCP>
Date: 7 Mar 91 18:39:54 GMT
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Reply-To: cgb@oink.UUCP (Charles G. Bennett)
Organization: Random Prime Research Institute  Columbus, Ohio
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Kids...Don't try this at home and if you lose any data don't blame it on
me,  BUT  I took my trusty square hole punch (used for converting 720
to 1.44 meg disks) and punched the hole a little lower, where the 2.88
meg hole goes and by golly it formatted at 2.88.  
I know the 2.88meg disks use a different coating and are much higher
quality etc.  but I just "calls them likes i sees them" and it did work.
BTW I wrote a trivial shell script to move files to and from the disk ALL
NIGHT and did not have any failures. As to long term data retention....