Floppy disks again

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Tue Oct 12 20:44:54 1999

On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Clint Wolff (VAX collector) wrote:
> Ok, I wasn't aware of any 96tpi drives except the HD ones... Were
> they ever used in the PC marketplace, or was it mostly a DEC thing?

http://www.xenosoft.com/fmts.html#720K
will give you a list of some of them.

> If Bill indeed has DSDD media, bulk erasing the media before applying
> it to the 96tpi (non-HD) drive should work fine. This erases the old
> data from between the new (half as wide) tracks, so it doesn't
> interfere with reading.

That seems to be working for almost everyone except Tony!

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