Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!uflorida!gatech!gitpyr!is813cs From: is813cs@pyr.gatech.EDU (Cris Simpson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: 3.5" disk drives and diskettes Summary: Ignores HP propaganda! Keywords: I never believed it either! Message-ID: <6928@pyr.gatech.EDU> Date: 9 Dec 88 21:31:45 GMT References: <10208@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <5060038@hpccc.HP.COM> Reply-To: is813cs@pyr.UUCP (Cris Simpson) Organization: VA Rehab R&D | Ga Inst of Technology Lines: 21 In article <5060038@hpccc.HP.COM> land@hpccc.HP.COM (David M. Land) writes: > >I've drilled a couple of discs, originally SINGLE-SIDED (256K) discs for >an HP 150, and I'm getting about 90% use from them -- in other words, on >a 1.44 M floppy, about 1.3 M of usable space. And that's on a used, >single-sided disc. >HOWEVER: I only use such discs for files I can afford to lose. Gosh, it's really shocking to see this from an HP employee, what with all the propaganda they send with storage devices. You know the one with the HP technician saying " If he had used HP disks in this floppy drive, he wouldn't have needed $14,000 worth of service on it." I think I'll call the response center and see if this is supported... :-) cris Disclaimer: I love HP. I've got a lab full of it.