Re: 3.5" DSDD ("720K") diskettes

[a2@wilserv.com (Willi Kusche)]

Hi!

"Glen G." <novirusforme@nowhere.com> wrote in message news:<xqmdneI_U4qn7ACiRVn-jg@gbronline.com>...
> I have a number of old computers which require 3.5" DSDD diskettes and
> recently had an opportunity to purchase some of them (more than I will ever
> use, but I had to purchase the entire lot).  A friend suggested that I post
> to a few Usenet groups pertaining to machines which have the same
> requirements -- somebody else probably could use some of these, too.
> 
> Here are the details:
> 
> Retail 10-diskette boxes, Certron brand, shrinkwrapped, inner plastic
> sleeve, labels included.  Look and act just like brand new.  I opened a
> couple of boxes and formatted half a dozen diskettes without incident.

    I bought some of these diskettes.  Not happy to find that in the
first box of ten that I tested, three couldn't be formatted.

    No sign of the "inner plastic sleeve".  Not that I would have a
real use for such a sleeve.

Willi