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From: MJLEPPER@MTUS5.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: $19 Floppy from NeXTConnection?
Message-ID: <91069.120722MJLEPPER@MTUS5.BITNET>
Date: 10 Mar 91 17:07:22 GMT
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 <CNH5730.91Mar2123954@maraba.tamu.edu> <19> <91Mar2.191552.7363@macc.wisc.ed
 <73@oink.UUCP>
Organization: Computing Technology Services, Michigan Technological Univ.
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In article <73@oink.UUCP>, cgb@oink.UUCP (Charles G. Bennett) says:
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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.

  A friend of mine recently used the same technique to go 720K --> 1.44M
on a PC-compatible (using no-name disks).  Everything was great for about a
month, but recently he has had problems with data loss.  So...I wouldn't use
this method unless you don't really care about your data :(  Especially
going 720K --> 2.88M.


>As to long term data retention....
>
              mjlepper@mtu.edu
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