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Re: Question on new floppy dive formattin

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From: William M. Bumgarner
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1989 18:10
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It should be safe to use the HD floppies as 800K.... basically an HD
floppy has media that is manufactured to much tighter specs.... an HD should
actually be just as reliable or more-so than on 800K floppy.

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From: wb1j+@andrew.cmu.edu (William M. Bumgarner)
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Subject: Re: Question on new floppy dive formattin
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