Re: Buying Apple Floppys

[marvinmiller@hotmail.com (Marvin Miller)]

I have a 1.2 mg Floppy but could not format it. Error 27

My understanding is that the 1.2 meg floppy s will fade very quickly
when used in an Apple.....

Marvin

On Thu, 16 Nov 2000 21:00:57 GMT, "Darkcode1" <no-one@microsoft.com>
wrote:

>Well, any floppy works in any drive as long as you format it for use with
>that drive...
>
>My friend gave me a whole bunch of 1.2mb floppys and they work good on my
>apple ][e.
>
>Marvin Miller <marvinmiller@hotmail.com> wrote in article
><3a10c218.948642505@news>...
>> Hi;
>> 
>> I've got a lead on around 500 new Floppys. They are listed as DSDD but
>> the picture shows that they are MD2DD, Double Side, Quad Density, Soft
>> Sector, 96 TPI, with Hub Ring.
>> 
>> What do you think? Do these disks have 'the right stuff' for my //GS?
>> 
>> Thanks In Advance;
>> Marvin
>>