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Re: Buying Apple Floppys

Marvin Miller writes ...
> 
 ....

> Those are 3.5's (MeritLine) I know it's a good deal and was planning
> on taking advantage of it. MeritLine won't ship to Canada though, so I
> have to arrange a relay point.
> 
> The ones I was talking about were 5.25's - I should have specified.
> It's the Quad Density in the specs that made me wonder...

     96 TPI sounds high for 5.25" DD. Like, the standard Apple II 5.25"
diskette is 35 tracks.

     Okay; looked it up on the net. According to Webopedia (at
http://aol.pcwebopedia.com/TERM/T/TPI.html ) Double Density would be about 48
tracks per inch (TPI).  96 TPI would be High Density.


> 
> Question: Assuming I have 3.5's - Do those old games and progs that
> were on 5.25's spanning several disks wokr on 3.5's?

     Some will. One way to run some DOS 3.3 stuff from 3.5" diskette or hard
disk is DOS 3.3 Launcher. There is more about this at
http://home.swbell.net/rubywand/Csa2DOSMM.html#022 .


> 
> I actually wanted the real floppy floppy's as well
>  ....

     To find sellers of 5.25" DD diskettes, see
http://home.swbell.net/rubywand/Csa2DSKETTE.html#008 and the FAQs Vendors
page at http://home.swbell.net/rubywand/A2FAQs3VENDORS.html .



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