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From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson)
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Subject: Re: 3.5" Disk "Notcher" wanted
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Date: 19 Aug 89 01:56:11 GMT
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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.

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