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From: akm@uoregon.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Are 720K floppies really 1.44M in disguise?
Summary: they work as well
Message-ID: <3720@uoregon.uoregon.edu>
Date: 6 Feb 89 02:26:10 GMT
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Reply-To: akm@drizzle.UUCP (Anant Kartik Mithal)
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Organization: University of Oregon, Computer Science, Eugene OR
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I've been setting up a NEC PowerMate Portable that takes 1.44 MB disks.
I had a bunch of disks from the owner to format, which I did, and got
1.44 MB disks. I now find that they are in fact only 720 K, and they
had no problems getting formatted.

Years ago, I used to format 5.25" SSDD as DSDD (180K as 360K) without
any difficulty.

If you are interested, I've been using Sonly and 3M disks.