Re: MacPlus question

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From: Zaphod B
Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 13:22

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pedro <pedro@nowhere.com> wrote:

> can I format new 1.44 mb floppies to 
> 800k format, to avoid using my old 800k disks and risk having this 
> problem again?

People used to tape shut the hole that tells the drive that a HD disk is
a "2MB" disk, and it normally works OK, but YMMV. I wouldn't trust it
for important data.
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/Z
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Subject: Re: MacPlus question
From: NOT.diskworld@mac.com.INVALID (Zaphod B)
Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 16:22:55 +0300
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