3-1/2" Floppy Market Cornered

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Wed May 21 20:17:01 2003

On 21 May 2003, David Holland wrote:
> I always thought the difference was the number of hole's at the
> end of the disk.. One of the hole's is for write protect. The others
> presence (or absence) indicates HD, or DD. (HD disks had the second
> hole)

That's right

> But then again, I'm the guy who (mistakenly) thought 3.5" HD disks
> would work as DD. :-)

They will. just not very reliably.
Received on Wed May 21 2003 - 20:17:01 BST