Re: Help! New to Apple ][

[kloesch@pgh.nauticom.net (KEVIN LOESCH)]

73301.2077 (73301.2077@CompuServe.COM) wrote:
: >Ahem...5.25" Apple ][ disks are 143k; 3.5" disks are 800k.  I'm
: >guessing that this person has either a pair of Disk ][ drives, a
: >pair of Apple 5.25 drives, or a DuoDisk.  So you're looking at
: >143k single-sided disks.

: Clarification:  it's true that Apple disks only make use of about 
: 130K per side (less catalog and bookkeeping data), but you can't 
: get single density disks any more.  However, double density disks 
: (360K) work, even though they are being formatted (initialized) 
: at less than capacity.  It's quite a shame that Apple never 
: issued a double density 5.25" drive; DOS 3.3 could have been 
: modified easily (well, relatively easily) to handle it.  All the 
: competitors took advantage of disks higher than single density.

: -- 
: 73301.2077@compuserve.com

	Do you even need to ask this question. After all, this is the same
company that took almost 8 years make any significant changes II line. 
They then brought out a machine that was expensive and way underpowered, 
and did nothing enhance it for the next 5 years. I don't know why so many 
people still worship apple computer. While I love the II's I hate the company 
with a passion(I think this would have been different if Jobs and Wozniak 
had stayed with the company).

Kevin Loesch
kloesch@nauticom.net