Re: assistance with disk ][ and modern 1.2M floppies

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John Teffer <jdteffer@c4.net> wrote:

>David Empson wrote:
>
>> They must be pretty rare.  I never encountered a single sided 3.5" drive
>> on a PC, and they were only around for about three years on the Lisa and
>> Mac (using Apple's 400K single sided format).
>
>Some Atari ST's used single sided double density 3.5" drives. 
>I'm not sure of the capacity though.

Atari ST single sided double density 3.5" drives were
360k.  Atari ST used MFM FAT for storage so the disks
were MS-DOS compatible.

But, like in the Apple IIGS/Mac world, the single density
model was early and now rare.  Most Atari ST disks are
720k DS/DD 3.5" disks.