17 May
1997
17 May
'97
1:16 a.m.
On Wed, 21 May 1997, Scott Walde wrote:
I've actually had very little problem using
_good_quality_ 360k (DSDD)
disks in my Tandy 2000, which has a 720k drive (DSQD). I believe the
magnetic material was the same from the DD to QD, just packed
tighter/finer(?). Am I wrong?
I do know that some later T2k's preferred the usage of HD diskettes vice DD
ones. This could possibly be a change in the drive mech that Mitsubishi used
for the basis of the M4853-1. Mine used to use DD disks just fine, which is
what I used since the QD ones were difficult to find and were expensive.
Other people I talked to had no luck with the reliability of DD diskettes
though and found that the HD ones would work just fine.
Jeff jeffh(a)eleventh.com
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