I was this days old when I learned that there was a #floppyDisk puncher that converted 3,5 inch DD into HD disks.
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I was this days old when I learned that there was a #floppyDisk puncher that converted 3,5 inch DD into HD disks.
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I was this days old when I learned that there was a #floppyDisk puncher that converted 3,5 inch DD into HD disks.
@stefanhoeltgen Probably worked as good as RamDoubler.
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@stefanhoeltgen Probably worked as good as RamDoubler.
These things actually worked most of the time. With the 5 1/4" disks for my C=64 I used my dad's scissors.
For most disk factories, it was cheaper to package the same slices of magnetized plastic in slightly different housings, than setting up different production lines for HD, and DD.
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These things actually worked most of the time. With the 5 1/4" disks for my C=64 I used my dad's scissors.
For most disk factories, it was cheaper to package the same slices of magnetized plastic in slightly different housings, than setting up different production lines for HD, and DD.
@cdonat @stefanhoeltgen Sorry, but that is wrong. You may confuse this with SS vs. DS. DD and HD disks use (and require!) different magnetic media. They are not interchangeable. If you do anyway by such a "hack", data is not stored reliably, as HD media need a higher write current (due to smaller particles) than a DD drive can support. And DD media would corrupt adjacent tracks when wrongly used as HD due to the higher write current. It just doesn't work.
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@cdonat @stefanhoeltgen Sorry, but that is wrong. You may confuse this with SS vs. DS. DD and HD disks use (and require!) different magnetic media. They are not interchangeable. If you do anyway by such a "hack", data is not stored reliably, as HD media need a higher write current (due to smaller particles) than a DD drive can support. And DD media would corrupt adjacent tracks when wrongly used as HD due to the higher write current. It just doesn't work.
@derSammler Oh, that's interesting. Is that's why in the other direction HD disks with a piece of sticky tape don't work very reliably in a DD drive?
Back in the days, I've had a few cheap HD disks and used them for my Amiga, but they were very prone to failures...
