Re: What kind of 5 1/4 disc can I use in my apple II drive??

["Stephen E. Adams" <sfxerzf@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>]

On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, md wrote:

# What kind of disc currently on the market will my apple II drive use?
# Will unformatted double-sided double-density work?  That is about all
# I can find.

Yes, they'll work just fine, although the Apple can only use one side
of the diskette (it's a single-sided drive).

High-density diskettes (those used as 1.2MB on PCs) may or may not work.
It all depends upon just how many stars appear in the sky on a given
night.  :-)

Regarding the ds-dd diskettes:  cut a notch on the other side of the
diskette, and you can use both sides by manually flipping the diskette
over.  I call them "flippies".  :-)  Just be careful with this though.
The diskettes I've done this to seem to have a higher failure rate than
if I had left them alone.


Steve