8" floppy system needed to recover old game data

[Scott Stevens]

On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 23:15:59 -0700
"Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:

> On 10/6/2005 at 10:26 PM Fred Cisin wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Scott Stevens wrote:
> >>  The highest density 8" media I ever had was DSDD, or
> >> 720K on the big 8" surface.
> >
> >approximately 1.2M
> 
> What surprised me is the way that the extra 3.5" data space was
> obtained.    Always by boosting the data rate (mandating the need for
> new coating formulations).  Never by increasing the number of tracks
> or changing the encoding method. 
> 
> The 2.88MB DSED diskettes were ridiculous--expensive AND unreliable. 
> 

I have for a time wanted to own a 2.88 floppy drive for one and only one
specific reason:  to produce bootable 'floppy images' to burn to a CDROM
that make it a bootable CD.  It's trivial to produce 2.88 images, but
you can't run the MS-DOS 'sys' command on an image.   You need a real
drive for that.

> But point taken--the attractiveness of the floppy medium is that it's
> CHEAP.  I've owned several LS-120 drives, but have never purchased a
> 120 MB SuperDisk.

I am gradually accumulating a heap of internal Zip drives, but own no
Zip 100 media.