<OT> Compaq file system??

[Tony Alfrey]

On Thursday 27 February 2003 07:06 pm, dep wrote:
> begin  Tony Alfrey's  quote:
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> | 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.
> |
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> is it a 720k floppy? eons ago, those were the 3.5 floppies.

After further quizzing, the floppy seems to be about 8 years old, but . 
. .
it says "Sony High Density MFD-2HD".  I have some old 720k macintosh 
disks that say MFD-2DD ( "double density" ).  It certainly acts like 
720k (which my box also cannot open or transfer).  Maybe it was 
formatted at 720 k.  Any magic tricks in this case?

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