bpreece1@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
>>>DOC Perhaps this will clear things up for you.
>>>
>>>1. a 1.44 floppy can actually be formatted with a 1.44 drive to the
>>>
>>capacity
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>>>of 1.72 megs.
>>>This is done with what is a Extended format with DOS 6.22 and Win Dos
>>>
>MODE
>
>>>you can use a DMF format with IBMDos it is XMF .
>>>
>>>ALL 1.44 floppy drives can read this except if you are using dos 6.12 or
>>>less
>>>
>>>If you want you can also download a program called win image this is a
>>>shareware util. You will see what you can do with this.
>>>
>>I really appreciate all of the guidance! I found Win Image here:
>>http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/merrow/788/appz.html
>>
>>Problem, do I need recent manufacture disks to get this 1.72 non-standard
>>format to "take"?
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>I would use fresh floppys. You can get 100 blank sony 1.44 disk at staples
>for 23.95 which is the best deal.
>Also Sony blank disk seems to be the most error free I have ever used got
>some 8 years old still works
>like new today. They use a better film on the disk which seems to live up to
>it's promise.
>
>>Every time I run Win Image to format my existing disks it finds multiple
>>errors on the physical floppies. It has been quite a while since I bought
>>
>any new disks,
>
>>could that be the problem?
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>Floppys usually go bad after around 5 - 6 years if it was good yes just
>sitting it can go bad as they
>loose the mangetic characteristics. This is not allways the case but if Win
>Image gives you a error
>I would have to say you can bet it is toast.
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>Also keep this in mind once you do a extended format to 1.68 or 1.72 meg
>they can not go back.
>How ever that usually is not a problem at least with me since I always try
>to use as much space as
>I can on a Floppy since now they are more expensive then CD's.
>
>I even still like using 5 1/4 floppys reminds me of High School Days oh my
>now I feel old.
>Since that was 16 years ago! Time does fly.
>
>Enjoy
>Bill Preece
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If you really want to feel old try:
"I owned two eight inch floppy drives (180K bytes)."
O'well. I used to own a pdp-8 with two 4K core stacks and an audio caset
tape
recording the modem output for mass storage. Also the teletype model 33
(keyboard and hard copy output (printer)) for I/O. We won't even
mention the paper
tape reader and punch that was mounted to the side of the model 33.
Have fun.
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