Re: Reading foreign disk on PC.

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From: Tom Williams
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 21:34

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berger@atropa (Mike Berger) writes:

> willy@hale.cts.com (Tom Williams) writes:
> >A 5.25" disk formatted to 720k must have been formatted in a high density 
> >drive.  What can read it, I'm not sure, but NU on a 1.2M drive might help 
> >to discover the FAT configuration and directory structure.
> *----
> Not necessarily.  There are 960K drives too.
> --
> 	Mike Berger
> 	Internet    berger@atropa.stat.uiuc.edu

Thanks.  After reading other replies, I now know that the DSQD existed.  
But I didn't know of the 960.

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From: willy@hale.cts.com (Tom Williams)
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Subject: Re: Reading foreign disk on PC.
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