Wirt writes:
> Jim Phillips writes:
> > This time the UL inspector here is trying
> >  to copy a floppy disk (at home) and asked me for assistance.  It
> >  seems he is trying to copy a 2MB floppy.  I didn't even know there
> >  was such an animal.  Anyway, what is required to copy these disks?
> >  A special disk drive?  Or just another 2MB disk?  Will a standard
> >  (1.4MB) floppy drive read/write these 2MB disks correctly?
>
> Please read previous post about customer wanting to go to Hippopotamus, NY.

As it turns out, he very well may have a non-standard floppy.  A number of
companies tried to establish a bigger-than-1.44MB standard "floppy".

If he really has such a non-standard floppy, chide him for ever taking it
away from the computer it was made on, and then look into alternative
methods of getting the data:  (1) make a new 1.44 MB floppy (generally
possibly on those non-standard drive, if you work hard enough); (2) put
the data on the net somewhere, and grab it that way.

On the off chance you ever encounter a floppy like that and have *no*
way of getting the data, and you *really* need the data, there are some
companies around that specialize in moving data from one media to another,
and can handle a surprising number of formats.

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Stan Sieler                                          [log in to unmask]
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