Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!lll-winken!uunet!image.soe.clarkson.edu!news From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: 3.5" Disk "Notcher" wanted Message-ID:Date: 19 Aug 89 01:56:11 GMT References: <111700136@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: news@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu Organization: Clarkson University, Postdam NY Lines: 16 In-reply-to: sac90286@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu's message of 17 Aug 89 13:55:00 GMT In article <111700136@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> sac90286@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes: Do any of you know of a source for the 3.5" "hole punchers" to allow a 720K floppy to be formatted to 1.44Mb? This may sound incredibly crude, but just take a soldering iron and melt a a hole. Take a 720K, open the write protect hole, turn it over, and use that hole to mark another 720K (they're symmetrical). Warm up a soldering iron good and hot, and melt a 1/8" hole. After it cools in a few seconds, use a utility knife to trim off the excess on the outside. Then format it as a 1.44 Meg. -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu])|(70441.205@compuserve.com)| (Russ.Nelson@f360.n260.z1.fidonet.org)|(BH01@GEnie.com :-)