Re: tlug: Reading NEC floppies?

[Jonathan Byrne <jq@example.com>]

On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, Matt Gushee wrote:

> Or might it be hardware-dependent (my floppy controller is an 8272A, I 
> guess ... dunno if that matters)?

You can buy 3-mode floppy drives that read the NEC format, but AFAIK
that's the only way to read an NEC-format disk on anything else.  There
isn't usually much price-difference between a 3-mode drive and a regular
floppy drive.


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