[Coco] 720kb Diskettes

Theodore (Alex) Evans alxevans at concentric.net
Sun Feb 28 21:45:58 EST 2016



On 02/28/2016 03:21 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:

> If those are 5.25" disks formatted in a 96 tpi drive, this is correct, If
> they are 3.5" DD 720k diskettes, this is an error in the disk
> formatting.  No 3.5" DD diskette should have a dns=3.

Yes, we should insist on images of 3.5" and 5.25" 720k disks that are 
otherwise identical being incompatible!  After all, who knows when we 
are going to start using 270 tpi 3.5" disks under OS-9.  This notion has 
caused a great deal of grief over the years.


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