Re: Disks

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

Supertimer (supertimer@aol.com) wrote:

: Actually, the unidisk 3.5" is designed to use double sided double
: density 3.5" disks.  It is not a good idea to use single sided double
: density disks in it because there are two read/write heads, one on
: each side.  That makes 400K per side for a total of 800K.  The only
: single sided drives from Apple were for the Lisa and the early Mac.

Has there been such a thing as a single sided 3.5" in the last decade? I'm
not so sure I've ever seen such a disk aside from my original disk copy of
system 1.1 for the Mac. DD disks of any flavor are hard enough to find
these days and I wouldn't worry much about finding single side disks.
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