3-1/2" Floppy Market Cornered

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
Date: Tue May 20 21:48:00 2003

At 08:58 PM 5/20/03 -0400, you wrote:
>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.

  Nope the HP drives are fussy. They won't use the HD disks. I tried them
in the 9114, 9133, 9121, 9122, 9153, Integral and others and NONE of the HP
drives will format the HD disks.


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

   They usually will for PCs but not for the HPs.

   Joe


>
>? (Of course, I haven't tried it recently enough to remember either.)
>
>David
>
>>
>> -tony
Received on Tue May 20 2003 - 21:48:00 BST