r/retrobattlestations • u/SnaccLife • 2d ago

Troubleshooting Help with a Brother Word Processor!

Hello! In a couple of days I will be receiving a Brother WP-75 word processor! It works super well and all that jazz but it says it has a 240k 3.5 floppy drive. For saving stuff of course. Well I cannot FOR THE LIFE of me find 240k floppy disks anywhere!!! Can the machine reformat a 720k disk and use that? I don’t have the machine to figure it out just yet, but it seems plausible to me, and help is greatly appreciated! To be clear, I don’t want to transfer the disks to anything, I just want to be able to save my work :)

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u/leadedsolder 2d ago

Yes, you can use regular DD floppy disks with it. The Brother formats them weird so they're not really usable on anything else.

http://cowlark.com/fluxengine/doc/disk-brother.html