-=> ROY J. TELLASON wrote to THOM KOUWENHOVEN <=-

 RJT> Thom Kouwenhoven wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 TK>> I have the experience that the 720k floppy's are a bit more
 TK>> reliable than the 1.44MB type.

 RJT> Oh really?  I haven't enough experience with them to have formed an
 RJT> opinion one way or another.  Though I never had anywhere near the
 RJT> trouble with the old "360k" disks that I've had with the 1.44s...

 TK> Grinn..i forgot to mention that i also had the experience that
 TK> 5.25" disks were much more reliable than the 3.5" types altogether
 TK> :-)

 RJT> Yes.

 RJT> I have a 720k drive here,  but where would you find floppies for them
 RJT> at a reasonable price?  I'm used to them being *cheap*,  and really
 RJT> not into paying much for them,  considering I have a whole big pile of
 RJT> 1.44s here.

 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.

Heck just format them to 720K, I had to do this to backup some software
that had come on 720's and would not install off of the handier 1.44's.
 
--- MultiMail/MS-DOS v0.45