WAYNE CHIRNSIDE wrote in a message to ROY J. TELLASON:

 TK> You can drill an extra hole in a 720k floppy to make it work like a
 TK> 1.44M flop but the other way around (covering a hole in a 1.44M
 TK> flop to make it work like a 720k) is, strangely enough, not
 TK> possible.

 RJT> I remember trying to make one of those work,  and it wouldn't.  The
 RJT> extra hole isn't the only difference,  there are major differences in
 RJT> the magnetic stuff on the disk itself,  too.

 WC> Heck just format them to 720K, I had to do this to backup some
 WC> software that had come on 720's and would not install off of the
 WC> handier 1.44's.  

I didn't particularly need a 720k floppy,  the time I ran into a problem
was when somebody sent me a 720k floppy that he'd "formatted" to
the higher density.  I don't recall whether he bothered with the extra hole
or not,  but the drive I was using at the time wouldn't read it.

The things some people do to save a little money...  Send me the damn
floppy across the country,  but don't give me something I can use!

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