Date   : Mon, 06 Nov 2006 09:13:55 -0000
From   : dl.harper@... (David Harper)
Subject: DFS on 3.5inch - Is this supposed to work?

Richard Gellman wrote:

> If I were to be as curiously pedantic (maybe not the right word?) as
> you, I might point out that not all HD floppies are black. Indeed I have
> a 1.44Mb DOS "rescue" floppy here that is distinctly yellow, but I
> digress....

Just to continue the digression (hopefully politely): There doesn't seem to 
be any real consistency about the colours. Most black disks I have come 
across have been HD and most blue ones have been DD. However looking through 
my disk collection (somewhere around 200-300 disks) I would say the majority 
are beige.Of these some are DD and some are HD - you just have to look for 
the extra hole (and usually the HD logo on the high-density ones).

I also have a "rainbow" box of 10 HD disks that I was given as a Christmas 
present once. (What does that say about other people's opinion of me!) In 
the box there are two each of white, yellow, green, blue and red.

David Harper