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Article #8638Re: 1.2meg <-> 360k
From: Philip M. Burton
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1986 05:44
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1986 05:44
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As I've said before, with a 360 KB floppy drive costing only $100, it makes no sense to fool around, assuming that your work and your time have some value. Perhaps the reason that people have been lucky is that the source and target machines are at approximately the same temperature and humidity. Floppy disks are made from a poly-mumble-mumble film substrate that is notoriously non- uniform in expansion/contraction according to temp. and humidity. My own experience is that a Shugart (Panasonic) SA 455 has no trouble reading disks written on the 1.2 MB drive, but the Tandon in my XT at work just flat- out can't do it. Works fine with all disks from 360 KB drives. Phil Burton Xerox Corp.
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!sri-spam!parcvax!burton From: burton@parcvax.Xerox.COM (Philip M. Burton) Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Re: 1.2meg <-> 360k Message-ID: <126@parcvax.Xerox.COM> Date: Fri, 31-Oct-86 00:44:29 EST Article-I.D.: parcvax.126 Posted: Fri Oct 31 00:44:29 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 31-Oct-86 14:17:35 EST References: <3667@sdcc3.ucsd.EDU> Reply-To: burton@parcvax.xerox.com.UUCP (Philip M. Burton) Organization: Xerox PARC Lines: 16 Keywords: AT disk drives