Re: Using 1.2M floppy disks

[ctkwan@csd.hku.hk (Doug Kwan ~{9XUq5B~})]

David Empson (dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz) wrote:
: In article <3nmbe0$rl2@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu>,
: Geoff Weiss <iigs@wam.umd.edu> wrote:
: > Doug Kwan ~{9XUq5B~} <ctkwan@csd.hku.hk> wrote:
: > >Has anyone tried using 1.2M floppy disk in Disk II? It's difficult
: > >to buy double density floppy these days.
: > 
: > In short, don't use high density disks in Apple 5.25" drives.

: I'll second that.  High density 5.25" disks use a different type of
: media from single/double density disks, and they cannot be formatted
: reliably in a single/double density drive.

Thanks for all of you for your replies. I just want to know if I can
preserve my old Apple ][ games. It is possible for the 5 1/4" floppy to be
obsolete in less than 10 year from now. I can move some of the apple ][
stuff to 3 1/2 floppy but it is difficult for games. I have quite
a number of games disk images for emulator. I'm sure I can run them
on emulators 20 or 30 years from now. However, I really want to run
them on a real Apple.  
 
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Doug Kwan ~{9XUq5B~}
Graduate Student
Department of Computer Science
The University of Hong Kong