30 Sep
1999
30 Sep
'99
1:09 p.m.
In a message dated 09/30/1999 5:07:50 PM Eastern Daylight Time, donm(a)cts.com
writes:
It was in a 1.2mb drive (although others on the list will doubtless say this
can't be true). As for stablilty, this was a long time ago but ISTR reading
one of the disks a few weeks later.
Glen Goodwin
0/0
> ISTR formatting DSHD diskettes to 360 KB in an
emergency (we're talking
> IBM-type pcs here) but only after hitting them with a bulk tape eraser
to
wipe them
clean, and then using the proper DOS FORMAT parameters . . .
Was this in a 1.2mb drive? I never tried that, only in a 360k drive.
Hmmm! Interesting, I just tried it and it seems to work. Even wrote to
it in a 360k drive and it was readable. Question is, how long?