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From: ac4@pucc-h (Tom Putnam)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: IBM => DEC Rainbow???
Message-ID: <1580@pucc-h>
Date: Wed, 19-Dec-84 12:11:11 EST
Article-I.D.: pucc-h.1580
Posted: Wed Dec 19 12:11:11 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 21-Dec-84 01:48:02 EST
References: <1971@vax4.UUCP> <10400175@uiucdcs.UUCP> <152@ur-cvsvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: ac4@pucc-h.UUCP (Tom Putnam)
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
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Summary: 

Tony Movshon notes in <152@ur-cvsvax.UUCP> that you can take "a brand new
unformatted diskette" and format it on the 96 tpi drive of the Rainbow.
You may also be interested to know that you can readily convert any old
diskette to "brand new unformatted" condition using one of those inexpensive
($15) bulk tape/diskette erasers available as such places as Radio Shack.
I have 96 tpi drives on my IBM PC, and I use this technique to create 48tpi
formatted diskettes that I can then read on a typical 48tpi drive.  I have
never had any difficulty doing this, even though the format of the track 
must be much narrower than the 48tpi drive would normally create.
-- 
Tom Putnam
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