Re: Floppy disks, HD DD, 1.44MB, 720k, 800k

["Bryan Parkoff" <bryan.nospam.parkoff@nospam.com>]

    If you look at data capacity that has 720K or 1.0MB, they mean to be
Double Sided Density.  If they are 2MB, they mean to be High Sided Density.
    You can buy either 720K (It is really 1.0MB) or 1.0MB before you can
format them into Apple 800K that is not a problem.  It will remain reliable
longer.  If you notice that label says, "For PC only", it can still work for
Mac and Apple II Family.  In fact, any DS/DD/HD capacity are always
compatible to any PC or Macintosh or Apple II Family however formats are not
always the same.  Please make sure to reformat any preformatted disks in
order to be reading reliable.
    Hopefully, it helps.

-- 
Bryan Parkoff
"Matthew S. Carpenter" <superpsycho@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> A few months ago a friend of mine gave me links to a couple websites
> were I could buy 3.5 DS/DD floppy disks by the 100 pack.  Now for the
> life of me I can't figure out what I did with those links so I've been
> searching on google.
>
> Now I keep finding results just like this one:
> <http://asp.issidata.com/comppage.asp?storeID=WI&gonow=12042>
>
> "1.44 MB, Double Sided, Double Density"
>
> Huh?  But arent DS/DD disks are supposed to format to 720k under MS-DOS?
>    I could swear last I checked that was the case.
>
> I e-mailed one of these stores and they told me the following:
> ---
> that single sided floppies format to 720K
>
> that double density 3.5 floppies format to 1.44MB
>
> and that high density 3.5 floppies format to 2.0MB
> ---
> I don't get it... where are they getting these numbers?  I've never
> heard them before and I've been using computers for years.
>
> Am I just hoplessly confused or are all these stores all mistaken?
> -- 
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