Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site lanl-a.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!vaxine!wjh12!genrad!decvax!ucbvax!ucbcad!tektronix!uw-beaver!cornell!vax135!floyd!cmcl2!lanl-a!rxt From: rxt@lanl-a.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.16k,net.micro.cpm Subject: Floppy disk information request Message-ID: <9102@lanl-a.UUCP> Date: Fri, 15-Jun-84 14:12:55 EDT Article-I.D.: lanl-a.9102 Posted: Fri Jun 15 14:12:55 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 19-Jun-84 01:19:29 EDT Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory Lines: 21 <> I am in the process of getting a DEC Rainbow 100+ computer. (I will not go into the trouble I am having!) Anyway, now I need some floppy disks. I was told by a friend of mine that single density disks are different, but all double density disk are the same. Thus, I do not need to buy quad density (which is what the Rainbow supposedly needs), but I can use double density. I bought a box of single-sided double-density disks when I was using a Rainbow before, and they all worked fine. Also, the company I was with issued double density disks, not quad density. Now I am thinging of using double sided disks, and modifying the disks so I can insert them backwards. I believe that I was told that single- sided disks are in fact double sided, and that they will work. Does anybody know the facts? Also, what brands are recommended and not recommended? Thanks in advance for any help that you can give. Richard Thomsen