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Diskette hole maker



On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Jerry Feldman wrote:

> Anyone have a need or desire for a tool that punches the hole to convert a 
> 700KB 3.5 in floppy to a 1.44MB floppy. If anyone wants it, I'll bring it 
> to the next BLU meeting.

I've heard lots of horror stories about those. Seems that single-sided
floppies are made from materials that failed to pass inspection for
double-sided use. I'd say punching that hole is asking for your data to
become corrupted.

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