Re: 5.25" disk question

[cheer@i.hate.spam (Christopher D. Heer)]

It was 11 Mar 97 08:23:32 GMT.  I was reading instead of working.  And Jason 
Whorton  <chesster@pcl.net> said:

>My Apple IIe manual states on page 36 that, "Both the DuoDisk and the Disk
>II drives are designed for 5 1/4-inch, single-sided, single-density disks."
> I am currently using DS/DD disks to record data.  Do I need to hunt down
>some blank SS/SD disks or is my data safe with the DS/DD disks?  Thank you.

Yeah, double-density is fine.  The drives (and disk format) were originally 
spec'd for SS/SD, but those became hard to find by the early 80s.  I have a 
couple hundred Apple disks, all SS/DD or DS/DD, most a decade older or more, 
and all fine.
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