Some floppy Questions.

[The flaming Cow]

One big question really, cai I get some floppies larger then 1.44 MB in the Toronto are, and can they be read in a regular floppy drive? That is all, thanks.

-The Flaming Cow :mad:

[FireMogle]

I dont think they ever made any floppies (much)bigger than the 1.44 other than the Superdisks and Zips and so forth.

[Xaotic]

They made 2.88MB floppy disks, but you won't be able to read them in a standard drive. If you've got slightly larger files, it'd be easier to split files across disks using PKZIP, WinZip or a number of other programs.

[parkan]

Originally posted by FireMogle
I dont think they ever made any floppies (much)bigger than the 1.44 other than the Superdisks and Zips and so forth.

Those were the drives that used hardware-level compression, I believe.

Here is what it looked like:

http://www.acts-1.com/288stdpc.html

[eobard]

2.88's aren't worth the money. They're rare enough that even if you find any the disks will probably be at least $1 per disk. There are programs out there that will let you get a bit more out of a standard floppy drive and disk. I had one that ran in Win3.1 or DOS mode that installed in himem and let you put up to 1.8meg on a 1.44 floppy but the person who wrote the code never made a win95+ version.

If you're interested in pure size, try "Active Surplus" (south side of Queen street, just east of the Much Music building) they probably have a few old 14" floppy drives laying around still. :D