Hi Paul, 720k was a single sided 1440k. Was used in my old Toshiba T1000. The original reason for 720k might have been only one read/write head in the drive so it was smaller and somewhat cheaper to build.
I "convert" 1440 to 720 by covering the 2nd floppy hole with electrical tape. Hope this helps. warm regards, john On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Paul Case wrote: > Hello everyone, > > My wife and I are throwing out an old Amiga 500, and I've found several > dozen 720KB floppies (which I can quite happily put to use), but I've > also found about 3 times as many disks labelled as single-sided (these > are 3.5" floppies, so that was surprising by itself). The question is, I > formatted one of those single-sided floppies on my Windows computer, and > neither Windows or Scandisk complained about any read/write errors... so > is it actually possible to use those floppies on my PC? And if so, what > capacity should I format them as? (They're labelled as having a 500KB > capacity, and they have 135 TPI). > Thanks in advance for any help, > > Paul Case > > ---------- > list options/archives/etc.: http://www.topica.com/lists/fd-dev > unsubscribe: send blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ---------- list options/archives/etc.: http://www.topica.com/lists/fd-dev unsubscribe: send blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?bz8Rv5.bbRv4l.YXJjaGl2 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
