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From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: Floppies
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Date: Sun, 23 Jun 91 00:37:45 GMT
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>.. And if you happened to format a DD disk in a Compaq Portable III with
>no special parameters, only way to recover some information from the disk
>with another computer is to punch new hole in the disk. Neat :)

Naah... just take it to the nearest IBM PS/2 - 
they have the same problem. In fact I'm surprised
to hear that Compaq doesn't put autosensing drives
in its computers either.. Darn! Why is it that the 
most expensive of PCs don't have autosensing drives?


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