🚀 go-pugleaf

Mitch <mitch@aardvark.apana.org.au> wrote:
>Indeed! I used to have a 1988 1.44 that rarely gave me problems despite the
>crappy media I fed it (even white box ex-Ritron Elec.) Even back
>then it was 2nd hand (out of an Amstrad hybrid) and it was far
>more reliable than my more modern sony, panasonic and teac companions.
>When it finally died this year (after many 0,000's of copies) it's
>numerous replacements have caused me nothing but stress. I really
>miss that drive!

Way back when a 1.44 floppy was still a significant way of storing data
(and to make it bigger was even better) there were programs like FDFORMAT
and 2M to make more fit on a floppy (I think there still are, but I heard
winblows95 doesn't like 2M floppies, at least...) So, I originally had a
1990-vintage Sony 3.5" FDD. It could do only 81 or 82 tracks on a disk. Yawn.
Then a couple of years later, I found an ALPS disk drive and it could do
88 tracks; of course, the very last tracks weren't always that reliable...
But anyway, I got even _over_ the 2 MB mark using that floppy drive, on a
disk that was supposed to have 2 MB UNformatted space!
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