3-1/2" Floppy Market Cornered

From: TeoZ <teoz_at_neo.rr.com>
Date: Wed May 21 12:22:01 2003

DD and HD use different magnetic media. Formatting a HD disk in a DD only
drive will create a disk that loses data if its readable at all.


----- Original Message -----
From: "David Holland" <dholland_at_woh.rr.com>
To: "Classic Computer Talk" <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 8:58 PM
Subject: Re: 3-1/2" Floppy Market Cornered


> 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
Received on Wed May 21 2003 - 12:22:01 BST