Apple 3.5" Diskettes

[Tony Cianfaglione <ab616@chebucto.ns.ca>]

As a followup of sorts to the Apple 5.25" Diskettes conversations, I
thought I would offer this...

About 10 years ago (late '89-90) when I first got a PC with a 3.5" 1.44 mb
drive, I was curious if the GS would be able to use the 3.5" HD disks.  I
formatted up 30 disks as GS 800k disks although they were DOS 1.44mb disks
and recorded a number of programs, games etc on them and filling them up
with whatever was on my Vulcan HD at the time.

I stuck these in a box on a shelf and would pull them out every 6 months
or so and ran a number of the programs to see if they still worked.  They
did and very well too.  I have yet to have a program on these 30 disks 
fail so I guess it would safe to say, at this point, that you can use PC
high density 3.5" disks safely to store GS material at 800k formatting for
at least 10 years.  Several friends of mine have done the same over the
years and report excellent results as well.

I'll let you know if they are still working in another 10 years.