On , Tony Lohrey wrote to Joel Dumas :

TL>  > Does anybody have a FLOPPY DISK HOLE PUNCHER for sale?
TL>  > Used to punch hole on the left side of a 720K drive to make it
TL>  > 1.44.
TL> 
TL> Simpy punching a hole will not 'make' the disk a 1.44.
TL> The magetic emulsion on the two disk types is different.
TL> 
TL> You will find that after a few uses, your '1.44' will
TL> become a 1.2... 1.0... 800k... 720k! (with bad blocks
TL> making up the difference).
TL> 

What a load of rubbish...I have been doing it here to backup the system for
years, and from memory I have had only one disk fail...This is the sort of
propoganda that disk manufactuters would like you to believe..


(Now back on topic)

      1 meg 9 chip 70 ns Japanese Simm $35

      Shane...


 

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