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From: basiji@milton.u.washington.edu (David Basiji)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: FDHD habituation? An urban legend?
Message-ID: <1991Apr30.165415.29891@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 30 Apr 91 16:54:15 GMT
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elliott@veronica.cs.wisc.edu (James Elliott) writes:


>One of my acquaintances recently read in some magazine the following
>factoid: FDHD drives, so the article stated, get "used to" writing on
>either 800K or 1.4M diskettes if they are used prevalently with one
>kine or another, and begin to have difficulty dealing with the
>magnetic characteristics of the other variety.

>This seems like so much balderdash to me... Would anyone care to
>confirm or deny this rumor, and help calm my friend down?
>-- 
>Jim Elliott		      "Like a bridge he'll come between us, not a wall"
>elliott@veronica.cs.wisc.edu

All I know is that I've seen many 1.44 Meg drives, both mac and PC, that
simply refuse to read or write a 720 disk even though they "should" be able to.

David Basiji