<OT> Compaq file system??

[dep]

begin  Tony Alfrey's  quote:
| Sorry about the off-topic question, but my wife will be grateful
| for possible help.
| My wife has a conventional 3 1/2" floppy that she formatted eons
| ago on an old Compaq computer.  She says
| a) the old Compaq would read floppies formatted on an IBM PC.
| b) floppies formatted on her Compaq could not be read on other PCs.
|
| Sounds to me like a poorly-aligned floppy drive but maybe it's
| something more subtle.
| My box says it can't recognize the file system on the floppy (when
| using the 'auto' option in the mount command).  Is there any
| possibility that the old Compaq had some wierd file system for
| floppies (obviously a question for the old farts among the list 
| ;-)  ).
| Thanks very much!

is it a 720k floppy? eons ago, those were the 3.5 floppies.
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