Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pucc-h Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:ac4 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 Lines: 12 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 {decvax|harpo|ihnp4|inuxc|seismo|ucbvax}!pur-ee!pucc-h:ac4