Re: Apple IIGS with PC Floppies

["TigerShark" <TigerShark@oceans.com>]

Go here:
http://store.yahoo.com/meritline/floppydisk.html

500 disks for $20. Shipping will prolly be more, though!

Tony

"Mr-T" <jonthorp@-no-spam-bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
news:bLZc8.10326$Uy2.44782@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> Greetings,
>
> I discovered something rather amazing the other day when bashing away on
my
> good old Apple IIGS. The older 720Kb 3 1/2" floppy disks are very hard to
> get hold of these days, so I decided to try some 1.44Mb PC floppies.
> Obviously, the computer didn't recognise what was on them because it
> couldn't see the FAT filesystem, so I decided to format them on the Apple.
>
> The IIGS formatted them with no problems at all, being able to store 720Kb
> (or was it 800K?). I copied ALL of my GS/OS system disks to standard
1.44Mb
> disks and worked fine with absolutely no data corruption.
>
> Can this potentially damage my 3.5" floppy disk drive on the IIGS?
>
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