Re: what floppy can I use for apple ][e

[aurejacgil@ifrance.com (Gilles Aurejac)]

Peter Schranz <schranz@ip-plus.ch> wrote:

> You cannot use HD 5 1/4 Floppies in the AppleII Floppy Diskdrive, the
> magnetic surface will not be correctly written with the low-power heads of a
> normal densitiy drive. This is true for any normal densitiy drive. So you
> need to find normal density Floppies, however you do not need to use
> single-sided Floppies, you can use the normal 360kb PC Floppies (So called
> Double Densitiy Double Sided 40 Tracks Floppies). These floppies should
> still be available. Although there is a trick to use both sides of theses
> floppies (just make another notch to enable writing and insert them top-side
> down) I do not recommend this, as the unused surface is mistreated by the
> felt that preses the floppy against the single read/write head.
> 

thank you, this is very precise and clear, exactly the answer I'd like
(I now will have to find DD floppy but if I wait a little I'm sure that
I will find some).

just another question : is there any way to recognize DD floppies from
HD floppies if there isn't any sticker on it ? The 3,5" floppies have a
notch to recognize HD from DD but is there anything similar with 5,25 ?