20 May
2003
20 May
'03
2:48 p.m.
At 08:58 PM 5/20/03 -0400, you wrote:
Nope the HP drives are fussy. They won't use the HD disks. I tried them
in the 9114, 9133, 9121, 9122, 9153, Integral and others and NONE of the HP
drives will format the HD disks.
On Tue, 2003-05-20 at 19:00, Tony Duell wrote:
> > Any original games on those 3.5's?
> >
> > I generally buy my disks bulk on ebay when I see a bargain. Most of my
old
> > 16 bit computers use those rare 3.5 DD disks,
found 500 new for $20
once..
Odd, most of my 16 bit machines use 8" disks...
Are 3.5" DD floppies that hard to obtain? I've seen them on sale in high
street shops over here in the last week or so (at twice the rpice of the
HD ones, of course...). If they're getting hard to find, I'd better stock
up, as my 9114s need them...
I thought you could use 3.5" HD/DD disks in a DS/DD drive just fine. At
worst a piece of tape over the "wrong" hole if necessary.
I know 5.25" HD disks don't work as 5.25" DS disks.. but I thought
3.5"
disks did..
They usually will for PCs but not for the HPs.
Joe
? (Of course, I haven't tried it recently enough to remember either.)
David
>
> -tony