3-1/2" Floppy Market Cornered

From: David Holland <dholland_at_woh.rr.com>
Date: Tue May 20 19:59:01 2003

On Tue, 2003-05-20 at 19:00, Tony Duell wrote:
> > Any original games on those 3.5's?
> >
> > I generally buy my disks bulk on ebay when I see a bargain. Most of my old
> > 16 bit computers use those rare 3.5 DD disks, found 500 new for $20 once..
>
> Odd, most of my 16 bit machines use 8" disks...
>
> Are 3.5" DD floppies that hard to obtain? I've seen them on sale in high
> street shops over here in the last week or so (at twice the rpice of the
> HD ones, of course...). If they're getting hard to find, I'd better stock
> up, as my 9114s need them...

I thought you could use 3.5" HD/DD disks in a DS/DD drive just fine. At
worst a piece of tape over the "wrong" hole if necessary.

I know 5.25" HD disks don't work as 5.25" DS disks.. but I thought 3.5"
disks did..

? (Of course, I haven't tried it recently enough to remember either.)

David

>
> -tony
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