Re: Apple 3.5" Diskettes

[Alberto Cavalcoli <acavalcoli@racine.ra.it>]

It sounds strange for me: I have lost much Apple IIgs progs and datas with HD
3.5" disks 800 K formatted.
I prefer to use DD 3.5" disks (not easy to find today) for 800 K ProDOS.... 

Alberto

Tony Cianfaglione ha scritto:
> 
> 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.