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From: miker@csupwb.colostate.edu (Mike Riley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Are 720K floppies really 1.44M in disguise?
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Date: 5 Feb 89 06:19:30 GMT
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There was an ad in this February's Byte magazine, on p30 that really caught
my attention.  To summarize, the company advertizing claimed that they had
a product that would allow you to format 720K disks to 1.44M, reliably.

The claimed that the media used in both disk types was exactly the same, 
and that the only reason you couldn't format your 720K disk to 1.44M was
that the plastic casing was not suitable.

Is there anybody out there on the net that can confirm this?  Is is 
snake-oil salesmanship, or are the disk manufacturers/marketers ripping
us off?  Is it at all possible that there's any middle ground?  Enquiring
minds (and disk purchasers) want to know!


    
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