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Default Floppy Drive from one Laptop into Another Laptop

On 13 Sep 2006 21:14:42 GMT, Puckdropper wrote:
Don Bowey wrote in
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In my opinion all 1.44 MB floppies are the same. I don't even look at
their part numbers when I change one out.


Be careful if you work on PS/2s. Very little was standardized in those
not even the floppy drives!


Yep. I remember that the PS/2 either inverted the meaning of the
write-protect slider, or totally ignored it.

( For you kiddies reading this and wondering:
( No we are not speaking of the Play Station 2.

Jonesy
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