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From: johnl@ima.ISC.COM (John R. Levine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: IBM PS/2
Message-ID: <647@ima.ISC.COM>
Date: Wed, 12-Aug-87 20:29:57 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 12 20:29:57 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 15-Aug-87 04:51:12 EDT
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Reply-To: johnl@ima.UUCP (John R. Levine)
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In article <3735@well.UUCP> hrh@well.UUCP (Harry Henderson) writes:
>[why are there 720K and 1.44MB microfloppies?]
>Distribute on 720K disks. They can be read by the 1.44 mb. I have
>found that 1.44MB capacity is only marginally useful on my Model 50
>because it refuses to format most name-brand 2MB unformatted capacity
>disks. I guess it only works reliably with the very expensive ($4-5
>each) IBM 1.44MB disks. Anyone know of a cheaper brand that works
>reliably on the PS/2?

I've had good luck with a bunch of Fuji 2MB disks that someone gave me to
try on my PS/2-50.

However, everwhere I look I find that 2MB disks are considerably more than
twice as expensive as 1MB disks (that's 1.44MB and 720KB formatted.)  So
I'll pass on the 2MB disks for the time being.  It'd be nice to keep the
disk clutter down, though -- I hope the prices come down.
-- 
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