18 Sep
2003
18 Sep
'03
11:53 a.m.
Apple drives are OK with single density or double
density disks, and you
can notch single-sided disks to make them double-sided. The Apple is easy
when it comes to disks.
Oh good, that makes my life easy. I have a half dozen unopened boxes of
5.25 DSDD floppies. Now I don't have to dig thru or sort all the used
ones.
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
18 Sep
18 Sep
2:23 p.m.
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, chris wrote:
The Apple ][ wants 300 Oerstedt diskettes. The most common of those are
"360K" (DSDD).
The data density is so low (barely more than FM/SD, that it can tolerate
some fairly poor quality diskettes, such as the ones that were being
manufactured at that time.
"HD"/"1.2M" diskettes are 600 Oerstedt, and will not work reliably for
it.
Sometimes they will APPEAR to work, but be unreadable soon after.
If you use an 8" drive on a ][ (Sorrento Valley Associates controller),
then you need to look for SS or DS disks based on which drive you use - SD
will be adequate.
IF you use a 3.5" drive on a ][, then use "720k"/"DSDD"
diskettes.
I'm pretty sure that the 3" drive (Ampro) for it was single sided.
--
Fred Cisin cisin(a)xenosoft.com
XenoSoft http://www.xenosoft.com
PO Box 1236 (510) 558-9366
Berkeley, CA 94701-1236
Apple drives
are OK with single density or double density disks, and you
can notch single-sided disks to make them double-sided. The Apple is easy
when it comes to disks.
Oh good, that makes my life easy. I have a half dozen
unopened boxes of
5.25 DSDD floppies. Now I don't have to dig thru or sort all the used
ones.
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