Subj : Re: Am I the only one dumpster diving ?
To   : vorlon
From : boraxman
Date : Tue May 31 2022 21:53:15

 vo>  bo> What is fun is using that 2M formatting program to format a 360K
 vo>  bo> disk to somewhere close to 900K capacity!
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 vo> IBM did a trick like that with the release of OS/2. That's why a special
 vo> program had to be used to write the disk's out.
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 vo> \/orlon

Was that the 1.6M DMF format?  I never used that but 2M was pretty cool.  One nice feature was that you could format the disk with the driver on it.  So all you had to was to boot the computer with the disk on, it would load the driver, then DOS, and then you'd have a machine which could support this disk format.  So if you took 2M disks to another machine, it would be no problem getting them to work if that machine didn't have 2M installed.

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