Re: 5.25" disk question

[dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)]

Flying Scot (ddmacang@cats.ucsc.edu) wrote:

: So are we saying that DS/DD disks work in the Apple ][ 5.25" drives?

: We're talking about the modern 5.25" disks?

Not the *most* modern 5.25" disks.  Back in the stone age, it was possible
to buy SS/SD disks.  Those have been mostly (if not entirely) gone for
years now in favor of the DS/DD disks that most of us use in our 5.25" A][
drives.

In the PC world, the 5.25" disks that work are considered "360k" disks.

The disks that *DO NOT* work are the most modern DS/HD disks.  These are
the 1.2Mb 5.25" disks which are now widely available.

To sum up:

SS/SD:  What the drive was designed for.
SS/DD; DS/DD:  What works just fine
DS/HD:  What you shouldn't use.

--Dave Althoff, ][.
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